Dobsonia beauforti Bergmans, 1975

Beaufortia 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).