Species Falsistrellus tasmaniensis (Gould, 1858)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vespertilio tasmaniensis Gould, J. 1858. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 10. [1 unnumbered page of text, 14th pl of Pt 10] [= Vol. 3 pl. 48; the specific name is spelled tasmanensis (cover and 14th pl. of Pt 10) and tasmaniensis (unnumbered page of text) by Gould; the first reviser is apparently Gould, J. 1863. The Mammals of Australia. Pt 13. London : J. Gould [xxxix] and he adopts the spelling tasmaniensis].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 43.2.22.1 skin & skull included (syntype BMNH 43.2.22.1 is Noctulina tasmanensis specimen a of Gray, J.E. 1843. List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 216 pp. [194]; the number 43.2.22.6 written on the skull of the syntype is incorrect), TAS, Philippine Ils and the 'continent of India'; the locality given for the specimen by Gray, loc. cit. is Van Diemen's Land.

  Secondary source:

   Gould, J. 1863. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 13.
• Vesperugo krefftii Peters, W. 1869. Über neue oder weniger bekannte Flederthiere, besonders des Pariser Museums. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869: 391-406 [404].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 3543 ♀ skin (wet, skull not extracted), NSW (as Neu-Süd-Wales).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Thomas, O. 1906. On mammals collected in south-west Australia for Mr. W.E. Balston. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1906: 468-478 [publication date established from Duncan (1937: 76)]
• Kitchener, D.J., Caputi, N. & Jones, B. 1986. Revision of Australo-Papuan Pipistrellus and Falsistrellus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 12: 435-495 [470] (for extralimital synonyms)

Generic Combinations

• Pipistrellus tasmaniensis (Gould, 1858).
• Falsistrellus tasmaniensis (Gould, 1858).

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, gregarious, migratory, predator, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Hibernates*.

General References

Adams, M., Baverstock, P.R., Watts, C.H.S. & Reardon, T. 1987. Electrophoretic resolution of species boundaries in Australian Microchiroptera. II. The Pipistrellus group (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 40: 163-170

Dwyer, P.D. 1965. Flight patterns of some eastern Australian bats. Victorian Naturalist 82: 36-41

Herr, A. 1998. Aspects of the ecology of insectivorous forest-dwelling bats (Microchiroptera) in the western slopes of the Australian Alps. PhD. Thesis. Charles Sturt University, NSW.

Parnaby, H. 1976. Live records for Victoria of the bat Pipistrellus tasmaniensis (Gould 1858). Victorian Naturalist 93: 190-193

Phillips, W. 1995. Eastern False Pipistrelle Falsistrellus tasmaniensis. pp. 520-521 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Phillips, W.R., Tidemann, C.R., Inwards, S.J. & Winderlich, S. 1985. The Tasmanian Pipistrelle: Pipistellus tasmaniensis Gould 1858: annual activity and breeding cycles. Macroderma 11: 2-11

Tate, G.H.H. 1942. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 47 Review of the vespertilionine bats, with special attention to genera and species of the Archbold collections. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 80: 221-297

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

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

Volleth, M. & Tidemann, C.R. 1991. The origin of the Australian Vespertilioninae bats, as indicated by chromosomal studies. Zeitschrift fur Säugetierkunde 56: 321-330

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. (Eastern False Pipistrelle)

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