Dobsonia beauforti Bergmans, 1975

Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5), pp. 277-420 : 381

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scientific name	Dobsonia beauforti Bergmans, 1975
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Dobsonia beauforti Bergmans, 1975 View in CoL

Beaufortia View in CoL 23(295): 3, figs 2–9. (16 January 1975).

Common name. Beaufort’s Naked-backed Fruit Bat.

Current name. Dobsonia beauforti Bergmans, 1975 ; following Simmons (2005).

Paratype. M.9996 by original designation as ZMA 16.475 . Female adult, skull, study skin, with embryo in alc. with same AM number (= ZMA 16.549 ). Collected on 25 December 1909 by L. F. de Beaufort from a cave near Nja-Njef, Waigeo Island, West Papua, Indonesia (previously Irian Jaya), the type locality. Received from ZMA in September 1975 .

Comments. Holotype and remaining 12 paratypes, all from the type locality, are in the ZMA Leiden, see Bergmans (2011).