Dobsonia crenulata, K. Andersen, 1909

Patterson, Georgina, Martin, Thomas Edward, Adams, Nathan, Cropper, Olivia, Mustari, Abdul Haris & Tosh, David G., 2017, Lowland rainforest bat communities of Buton Island, Southeast Sulawesi, including new regional records, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65, pp. 373-385 : 379

Dobsonia crenulata

A Wallacean endemic which appears to be a rare species on Buton. It was recorded twice during our study period, with a single individual observed hanging from a tree in the Lambusango Forest Reserve by OC (20 June 2014), and with a large roost within an extensive cave system (where E. monticola was also present) in KFR being located by GP & TEM (31 July 2014). Individuals hand netted from this cave system displayed slight colour variations from vivid yellow fur to a subdued yellow-green hue. Opportunistic sightings by TEM also suggest the species to be common on the nearby Wakatobi Islands – specifically on the major island of Kaledupa and its smaller attendant island Hoga. Previously considered a subspecies of Dobsonia viridis ( Hill, 1991; Flannery, 1995), Wilson & Reeder (2015) regard D. crenulata as a separate species endemic to Sulawesi and the Moluccas. It has been previously mapped as occurring on Buton ( Hutson et al., 2008b).