Lesser Naked-backed Fruit Bat
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The lesser naked-backed fruit bat (''Dobsonia minor'') is a species of
megabat Megabats constitute the Family (biology), family Pteropodidae of the Order (biology), order Chiroptera. They are also called fruit bats, Old World fruit bats, or—especially the genus, genera ''Acerodon'' and ''Pteropus''—Pteropus, flyin ...
in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in
Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
and
Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
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Dobsonia Bats of Oceania Bats of Indonesia Bats of New Guinea Mammals of Papua New Guinea Least concern biota of Oceania Mammals described in 1879 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by George Edward Dobson {{fruit-bat-stub