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Dobsonia moluccensis (Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat)

Synonyms: Hypoderma moluccensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia moluccensis) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.
View Wikipedia Record: Dobsonia moluccensis

Infraspecies

Dobsonia moluccensis magna (New Guinea Naked-backed Fruit Bat) (Attributes)
Dobsonia moluccensis moluccensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
11
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.4
EDGE Score: 1.48
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  430 grams
Birth Weight [1]  55 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  100 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  1 year 11 months
Gestation [1]  5 months
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  12 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  9 inches (24 cm)
Weaning [1]  6 months

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Buru rain forests Indonesia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests  
Halmahera rain forests Indonesia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Seram rain forests Indonesia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia Yes

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0