Bibliography for EMBALLONURIDAE

• ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study.
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• Chimimba, C.T. & Kitchener, D.J. 1987. Breeding in the Australian Yellow-bellied Sheath-tailed Bat, Saccolaimus flaviventris (Peters, 1867) (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 241-248
• Chimimba, C.T. & Kitchener, D.J. 1991. A systematic revision of Australian Emballonuridae (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Records of the Western Australian Museum 15: 203-265
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• Coles, R.B. & Lumsden, L. 1993. Report on the survey of bats in the heathland area of Cape York Peninsula. pp. 247-259 in Feeney, P. (ed.). Cape York Peninsula Scientific Expedition Report: Wet Season 1992. Brisbane : Royal Geographic Society of Queensland Vol. 2(4).
• Compton, A. & Johnson, P.M. 1983. Observations of the sheath-tailed bat, Taphozous saccolaimus Temminck (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae), in the Townsville region of Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 6: 83-87
• De Vis, C.W. 1905. Bats. Annals of the Queensland Museum 6: 36-40 [publication date established from Mahoney, J.A. & Ride, W.D.L. 1975. Index to the genera and species of fossil Mammalia described from Australia and New Guinea between 1838 and 1968 (including citations of type species and primary type specimens). Spec. Publ. West. Aust. Mus. 6: 1–250 [157]]
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• Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire], É. 1813. Description des mammifères qui se trouvent en Égypte. pp. 99-144 in Jomard, E.F. (ed.). Description de l'Égypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée Française. Histoire Naturelle. Paris : l'Imprimerie Impériale Vol. 2(9). [publication date established from Anon. 1838. A Bibliographic Account and Collation of La Description de l'Égypte, presented to the Library of the London Institution, by Sir Thomas Baring, Baronet, President: with a list of the other donations made to that Establishment from April 1837 to April 1838. London : London Institution 89 pp. [35–36], Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. 1847. Vie, Travaux et Doctrine Scientifique d'Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Paris : P. Bertrand 479–1 pl. pp. [425], Flourens, [M.J.P.] 1853. Éloge historique d'Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Mém. Acad. Sci. Inst. Fr. 23: i-lxxi [xlviii-xliv] (the date Mars 1813 is printed on a separate of Geoffroy's Description des Mammifères qui se trouvent en Égypte preserved in the BMNH Zoology Library), Sherborn, C.D. 1897. On the dates of the Natural History portion of Savigny's 'Description de l'Égypte'. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897: 285–288 [288] (discusses the BMNH separate, which he calls a proof, when attempting to establish the date of Geoffroy's work)]
• Goodwin, G.G. 1953. Catalogue of the type specimens of recent mammals in the American Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 102: 207-411
• Goodwin, R.E. 1979. The bats of Timor: systematics and ecology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 163: 73-122
• Gould, J. 1854. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 6.
• Hall, L.S. 1995. Bare-rumped Sheathtail-bat Saccolaimus saccolaimus. pp. 469-470 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
• Hall, L.S., Thomson, B.G. & Milne. D.J. 2008. Bare-rumped Sheath-tailed Bat Saccolaimus saccolaimus (Temminck, 1838). pp. 475-476 in van Dyck, S. & Strahan, R. The Mammals of Australia. Third Edition. Sydney : Reed New Holland 887 pp.
• Hall, L.S. & Gordon, G. 1982. The throat-pouch of the Yellow-bellied Bat, Taphozous flaviventris. Mammalia 46: 247-252 pls 3-4
• Honacki, J.H., Kinman, K.E. & Koeppl, J.W. (eds) 1982. Mammal Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Lawrence, Kansas : Allen Press & Assoc. Syst. Coll. ix 694 pp.
• Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp.
• Jolly, S. 1988. Vaginal smears and the reproductive cycle of the common sheath-tail bat, Taphozous georgianus (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae). Australian Mammalogy 11: 75-76
• Jolly, S. 1990. The biology of the common sheath-tail bat, Taphozous georgianus (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae) in central Queensland. Australian Journal of Zoology 38: 65-77
• Jolly, S. 1995. Common Sheathtail-bat Taphozous georgianus. pp. 472-474 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
• Jolly, S.A. 1989. A comparison of two banding methods in the common sheath-tailed bat, Taphozous georgianus. Macroderma 4: 64-66
• Jolly, S.E. & Blackshaw, A.W. 1987. Prolonged epididymal storage, and the temporal dissociation of testicular and accessory gland activity in the common sheath-tailed bat, Taphozous georgianus, of tropical Australia. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 81: 205-211
• Jones, F.W. 1925. The Mammals of South Australia. Part III. The Monodelphia. Adelaide : Government Printer.
• Kitchener, D.J. 1973. Reproduction in the common sheath-tailed bat, Taphozous georgianus (Thomas) (Microchiroptera: Emballonuridae), in Western Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 21: 375-389
• Kitchener, D.J. 1976. Further observations on reproduction in the common sheath-tailed bat, Taphozous georgianus Thomas, 1915 in Western Australia, with notes on the gular pouch. Records of the Western Australian Museum 4: 335-347
• Kitchener, D.J. 1980. Taphozous hilli sp. nov. (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae), a new sheath-tailed bat from Western Australia and Northern Territory. Records of the Western Australian Museum 8: 161-169
• Kitchener, D.J. 1989. Emballonuridae. pp. 845-851 in Walton, D.W. & Richardson, B.J. (eds). Fauna of Australia. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1B 827 pp.
• Kitchener, D.J. 1995. Hill's Sheathtail-bat Taphozous hilli. pp. 474-476 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
• Koopman, K.F. 1970. Zoogeography of bats. pp. 29-50 in Slaughter, B.H. & Walton, D.W. (eds). About Bats. A chiropteran biology symposium. Dallas : Southern Methodist Univ. Press.
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• Koopman, K.F. 1984. Taxonomic and distributional notes on tropical Australian bats. American Museum Novitates 2778: 1-48
• 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
• Laurie, E.M.O. & Hill, J.E. 1954. List of Land Mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and Adjacent Islands 1758–1952. London : British Museum 175 pp. 3 pls.
• Leche, W. 1884. On some species of Chiroptera from Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1884: 49-54 [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84 [74]]
• 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
• Lyon, M.W. 1914. Tadarida Rafinesque versus Nyctinomus Geoffroy. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 27: 217-218
• McKean, J. & Thomson, B. 1995. Arnhem Sheathtail-bat Taphozous kapalgensis. pp. 476-477 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
• McKean, J.L., Friend, G.R. & Hertog, A.L. 1981. Occurrence of the sheath-tailed bat, Taphozous saccolaimus in the Northern Territory. Northern Territory Naturalist 1: 20
• McKean, J.L. & Friend, G.R. 1979. Taphozous kapalgensis, a new species of sheath-tailed bat from the Northern Territory, Australia. Victorian Naturalist 96: 239-241
• McKean, J.L. & Hamilton-Smith, E. 1967. Litter size and maternity sites in Australian bats (Chiroptera). Victorian Naturalist 84: 203-206
• McKean, J.L. & Price, W.J. 1967. Notes on some Chiroptera from Queensland, Australia. Mammalia 31: 101-119
• Milne, D.J., Jackling, F.C., Sidhu, M. & Appleton, B.R. 2009. Shedding new light on old species identifications: morphological and genetic evidence suggest a need for conservation status review of the critically endangered bat, Saccolaimus saccolaimus. Wildlife Research 36(6): 496-508
• Milne, D.J., Reardon, T.B. & Watt, F. 2003. New records for the Arnhem sheathtail bat Taphozous kapalgensis (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae) from voucher specimens and Anabat recordings. Australian Zoologist 32: 439-445
• Oliveira, M.C. de 1998. Towards standardized descriptions of the echolocation calls of microchiropteran bats: pulse design terminology for seventeen species from Queensland. The Australian Zoologist 30: 405-411
• Peters, W. 1867. On Taphozous flaviventris, Gould, a new species of bat from Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 430 [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84 [72]]
• Ramsay, E.P. 1876. Description of a supposed new species of bat, from Stanwell, near Bulli, N.S.W. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 81-82 [publication date established from Fletcher, J.J. 1896. On the dates of publication of the early volumes of the Society's Proceedings. Proc. Linn. Soc. NSW 2 10: 533–536 [535]]
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• Richards, G.C. 1995. Yellow-bellied Sheathtail-bat Saccolaimus flaviventris. 467 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
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• Stephan, H. & Nelson, J.E. 1981. Brains of Australian Chiroptera 1. Encephalization and macromorphology. Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 653-670
• Tate, G.H.H. 1941. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 37 Notes on Oriental Taphozous and allies. American Museum Novitates 1141: 1-5
• Tate, G.H.H. 1952. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 66 Mammals of Cape York Peninsula with notes on the occurrence of rain forest in Queensland. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 98: 563-616
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• 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
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• Ziegler, A.C. 1982. An ecological check-list of New Guinea Recent mammals. pp. 863-894 in Gressitt, J.L. (ed.). Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea. The Hague & London : W. Junk Vol. 2(4) vii 983 pp.

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