Species Nyctophilus geoffroyi Leach, 1821

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Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Thomas, O. 1915. Notes on the genus Nyctophilus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 493-499 [494-495] (N. geoffroyi Leach, B. pacificus Gray, N. unicolor Tomes, N. australis Peters and N. g. pallescens Thomas in synonymy as Nyctophilus geoffroyi Leach; date of N. geoffroyi given as 1822)
• Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 6: i-xii 1-122 [94] (N. geoffroyi Leach, B. pacificus Gray, N. unicolor Tomes, N. g. pallescens Thomas and N. geayi Trouessart in synonymy as Nyctophilus geoffroyi Leach)
• Koopman, K.F. 1984. Taxonomic and distributional notes on tropical Australian bats. American Museum Novitates 2778: 1-48 [28-29] (N. geoffroyi Leach, B. pacificus Gray, N. unicolor Tomes and N. g. pallescens Thomas in synonymy as Nyctophilus geoffroyi Leach)

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, gregarious, predator, subtropical, under bark, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Experiences torpor.

 

General References

Brigham, E.M., Francis, R.L. & Hamdorf, S. 1997. Microhabitat use by two species of Nyctophilus bats: a test of ecomorphology theory. Australian Journal of Zoology 45: 553-560

Brigham, R.M. & Geiser, F. 1998. Seasonal activity patterns of two species of Nyctophilus bats based on mist net captures. Australian Mammalogy 20: 349-352

Churchill, S.K., Hall, L.S. & Helman, P.M. 1984. Observations on long-eared bats (Vespertilionidae: Nyctophilus) from northern Australia. Australian Mammalogy 7: 17-28

Ellis, W.A.H., Marples, T.G. & Phillips, W.R. 1991. The effects of a temperature-determined food supply on the annual activity cycle of the lesser long-eared bat, Nyctophilus geoffroyi Leach, 1821 (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 39: 263-271

Friend, G.R. & Braithwaite, R.W. 1986. Bat fauna of Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory. Australian Mammalogy 9: 43-52

Grant, J.D. 1991. Prey location by two Australian long-eared bats, Nyctophilus gouldi and N. geoffroyi. Australian Journal of Zoology 39: 45-56

Green, R.H. 1966. Notes on lesser long-eared bat Nyctophilus geoffroyi in Northern Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston ns 22: 1-4 pls 1-4

Hosken, D.J. 1996. Roost selection by the lesser long eared bat, Nyctophilus geoffroyi, and the greater long eared bat, N. major (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in banksia woodland. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 79: 211-216

Hosken, D.J. 1997. Reproduction and the female reproductive cycle of Nyctophilus geoffroyi and N. major. Australian Journal of Zoology 45: 489-504

Hosken, D.J. 1998. Sperm fertility and skewed paternity during sperm competition in the Australian long-eared bat Nyctophilus geoffroyi (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Journal of Zoology, London 245: 93-100

Hosken, D.J., Bailey, W.J., O'Shea, J.E. & Roberts, J.D. 1994. Localisation of insect calls by the bat Nyctophilus geoffroyi (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae): a laboratory study. Australian Journal of Zoology 42: 177-184

Hosken, D.J., Blackberry, M.A., Stewart, T.B. & Stucki, A.F. 1998. The male reproductive cycle of three species of Australian vespertilionid bat. Journal of Zoology, London 245: 261-270

Kulzer, E., Nelson, J.E., McKean, J.L. & Möhres, F.P. 1970. Untersuchungen über die Temperaturregulation australischer Fledermäuse (Microchiroptera). Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Physiologie 69: 426-451

Lumsden, L.F. & Bennett, A.F. 1995. Bats of a semi-arid environment in south-eastern Australia: Biogeography, ecology and conservation. Wildlife Research 22: 217-240

Maddock, T.H. 1972. The Lesser Long-eared Bat, Nyctophilus geoffroyi Leach, cave-dweller or occasional visitor. South Australian Naturalist 46: 63-64

Maddock, T.H. & Tidemann, C.R. 1995. Lesser Long-eared Bat Nyctophilus geoffroyi. pp. 502-503 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

McKean, J.L. & Hamilton-Smith, E. 1967. Litter size and maternity sites in Australian bats (Chiroptera). Victorian Naturalist 84: 203-206

Stephan, H., Nelson, J.E. & Frahm, H.D. 1981. Brain size comparison in Chiroptera. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 19: 195-222

Stephan, H. & Nelson, J.E. 1981. Brains of Australian Chiroptera 1. Encephalization and macromorphology. Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 653-670

Taylor, R.J. & O'Neill, M.G. 1986. Composition of the bat communities in Tasmanian forests. Australian Mammalogy 9: 125-130

Taylor, R.J. & Savva, N.M. 1988. Use of roost sites by four species of bats in state forest in south-eastern Tasmania. Australian Wildlife Research 15: 637-645

Temminck, C.J. 1835. Sur le nouveau genre Nyctophile. —` Nyctophilus (Leach). pp. 46–48 pl. 34. In, Temminck, C.J. (1835–1841). (ed.). Monographies de Mammalogie, ou description de quelques genres de mammifères, dont les espèces ont été observées dans les différens musées de l'Europe. Ouvrage accompagné de planches d'Ostéologie, pouvant servir de suite et de complément aux Notices sur les animaux vivans, publiées par M. le baron G. Cuvier, dans ses Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles. Paris : G. Dufour & E. D'Ocagne Vol. 1.

Vestjens, W.J.M. & Hall, L.S. 1977. Stomach contents of forty-two species of bats from the Australasian region. Australian Wildlife Research 4: 25-35

Woodside, D.P. & Taylor, K.J. 1985. Echolocation calls of fourteen bats from eastern New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 8: 279-298

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Lesser Long-eared Bat)

 

History of changes

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04-Dec-2018		18-Nov-2010	MOVED
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