New Britain naked-backed fruit bat

New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Genus: Dobsonia
Species: D. praedatrix
Binomial name
Dobsonia praedatrix
K. Andersen, 1909
New Britain naked-backed fruit bat range

The New Britain naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia praedatrix) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.

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