Dobsonia minor (Dobson 1878)

[Dobsonia] minor (Dobson 1878), Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878: 875.

Type Locality: Indonesia, Prov. of Papua, Manokwari Div., Amberbaki.

Vernacular Names: Lesser Naked-backed Fruit Bat.

Distribution: C and W New Guinea and adjacent small islands; Sulawesi.

Conservation: IUCN / SSC Action Plan (1992) – Rare. IUCN 2003 – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: minor species group. Reviewed by Bergmans and Sarbini (1985) and Corbet and Hill (1992); also see Flannery (1995 a, b) and Bonaccorso (1998).