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Genus Dobsonia Palmer, 1898

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Genus Dobsonia Palmer, 1898

  • Dobsonia Palmer, T.S. 1898. Random notes on the nomenclature of the Chiroptera. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 12: 109-114 [113-114] [nom. nov. for Hypoderma Geoffroy, 1828].
  • Hypoderma Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire], É. 1828. Cours de l'Histoire Naturelle des Mammifères. Partie comprenant quelques vues préliminaires de philosophie naturelle, et l'histoire des singes, des makis, des chauve-souris et de la taupe; pouvant servir de complément a l'histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes de Buffon. 13e leçon.-27 Juin 1828. Paris : Pichon & Didier 35 pp. [publication date established from Andersen, K. 1912. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. 2nd Megachiroptera. London : British Museum Vol. 1 cii 854 pp. [448]] [29] [junior homonym of Hypoderma Latrielle, 1818].
    Type species:
     Pteropus paliatus Geoffroy, 1810 by monotypy (as Pteropus palliatus).

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern SE Asian islands, New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Solomon Islands

Oriental Region

  • Indonesia
  • Philippines

Distribution References

  • Nowak, R.M. & Paradiso, J.L. 1983. Walker's Mammals of the World. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press Vol. 1