Bibliography for MACROGLOSSINAE

• ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study.
• Andersen, K. 1911. Six new fruit-bats of the genera Macroglossus and Syconycteris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 7: 641-643
• Andersen, K. 1912. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Megachiroptera. London : British Museum Vol. 1 2, cii 854 pp.
• Ando, K., Tagawa, T. & Uchida, T.A. 1980. A karyotypic study on four species of the Indonesian fruit-eating bats, belonging to Cynopterus, Eonycteris and Macroglossus (Chiroptera: Pteropidae). Caryologia 33: 41-53
• Bartholomew, G.A., Leitner, P. & Nelson, J.E. 1964. Body temperature, oxygen consumption, and heart rate in three species of Australian flying foxes. Physiological Zoology 37: 179-198
• Birt, P., Hall, L.S. & Smith, G.C. 1997. Ecomorphology of the tongues of Australian Megachiroptera (Chiroptera: Pteropidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 45: 369-384
• Blyth, E. 1840. The first Class of Vertebrate Animals—Mammalia. pp. 38–52 in Blyth, E., Mudie, R., Johnston, G. & Westwood, J.O. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, arranged according to its organization; forming the basis for a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. London : W.S. Orr vii 670 pp.
• Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. 1824. Des dents des mammifères, considérées comme caractères zoologiques (1821–1825). Paris : F.G. Levrault iv 259 pp., pls 1-103.
• Friend, G.R. & Braithwaite, R.W. 1986. Bat fauna of Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory. Australian Mammalogy 9: 43-52
• Geiser, F., Cockburn, D.K., Körtner, G. & Law, B.S. 1996. Thermoregulation, energy metabolism, and topor in blossom-bats, Syconycteris australis (Megachiroptera). Journal of Zoology, London 239: 583-590
• Hill, J.E. 1983. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Indo-Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 45: 103-208
• 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.
• 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
• Jentink, F.A. 1902. Revision of the genera Macroglossus and Syconycteris and description of a new genus and species, Odontonycteris meijeri. Notes from the Leyden Museum 23: 131-142
• Kitchener, D.J., Packer, W.C. & Maryanto, I. 1994. Morphological variation in Maluku populations of Syconycteris australis (Peters, 1867) (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 16: 485-498
• Koopman, K.F. 1979. Zoogeography of mammals from islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea. American Museum Novitates 2690: 1-17
• Koopman, K.F. 1982. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 109 Bats from eastern Papua and the east Papuan Islands. American Museum Novitates 2747: 1-34
• Koopman, K.F. 1984. Taxonomic and distributional notes on tropical Australian bats. American Museum Novitates 2778: 1-48
• 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.
• Law, B.S. 1992. Physiological factors affecting pollen use by Queensland blossom bats (Syconycteris australis). Functional Ecology 6: 257-264
• Law, B.S. 1992. The maintenance nitrogen requirements of the Queensland blossom bat (Syconycteris australis) on a sugar/pollen diet: is nitrogen a limiting resource? Physiological Zoology 65: 634-648
• Law, B.S. 1993. Roosting and foraging ecology of the Queensland blossom bat (Syconycteris australis) in north-eastern New South Wales: flexibility in response to seasonal variation. Wildlife Research 20: 419-431
• Law, B.S. 1993. Sugar preferences of the Queensland blossom bat, Syconycteris australis: a pilot study. Australian Mammalogy 16: 17-21
• Law, B.S. 1994. Banksia nectar and pollen; dietary items affecting the abundance of the common blossom bat, Syconycteris australis, in southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 19: 425-434
• Law, B.S. 1994. Climatic limitation of the southern distribution of the common blossom bat Syconycteris australis in New South Wales. Australian Journal of Ecology 19: 366-374
• Law, B.S. 1995. The effect of energy supplementation on the local abundance of the common blossom bat, Syconycteris australis, in south-eastern Australia. Oikos 72: 42-50
• Law, B.S. 1997. The lunar cycle influences time of roost departure in the common blossum bat, Syconycteris australis. Australian Mammalogy 20: 21-24
• Law, B.S. & Spencer, H.J. 1995. Common Blossom-bat Syconycteris australis. pp. 423-425 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
• Lawrence, M.A. 1991. Biological observations on a collection of New Guinea Syconycteris australis (Chiroptera, Pteropodidae) in the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum Novitates 3024: 1-27
• Lydekker, R. 1891. In Flower, W.H. & Lydekker, R. An Introduction to the Study of Mammals Living and Extinct. London : A. & C. Black xvi 763 pp.
• Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988]
• Matschie, P. 1899. Die Fledermäuse des Berliner Museums für Naturkunde. Lfg 1. Die Megachiroptera des Berliner Museums für Naturkunde. Vierzehn Unter Leitung von Prof. W. Peters und Paul Matschie gezeichnete und lithographirte tafeln. Bearbeitet und durch 2 Verbreitungskarten und Bestimmungstabellen für alle bekannten Arten ergänzt. Berlin : G. Reimer viii 107 pp.
• McKean, J.L., McCoy, M. & Spencer, H.J. 1995. Northern Blossom-bat Macroglossus minimus. pp. 421-422 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
• Mickleburgh, S.P., Hutson, A.M. & Racey, P.A. (Compilers) 1992. Old World Fruit Bats: An action plan for their conservation. Gland : IUCN 252 pp.
• Nelson, J.E. 1964. Notes on Syconycteris australis, Peters, 1867 (Megachiroptera). Mammalia 28: 429-432 pl. 21
• Nowak, R.M. & Paradiso, J.L. 1983. Walker's Mammals of the World. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press Vol. 1.
• Peters, W. 1867. Herpetologische Notizen. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1867: 13-37
• Smith, J.D. & Hood, C.S. 1981. Preliminary notes on bats from the Bismarck Archipelago (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Science in New Guinea 8: 81-121
• 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
• Sussman, R.W. & Raven, P.H. 1978. Pollination by lemurs and marsupials: an archaic coevolutionary system. Science (Washington, D.C.) 200: 731-736
• Trouessart, E.-L. 1899. Catalogus Mammalium tam Viventium quam Fossilium. Nova editio (Prima completa). Tom. II Fasc. VI. Appendix (addenda et corrigenda). Index alphabeticus. Berolini : R. Friedländer & Sohn pp. 1265-1469.
• Trouessart, E.-L. 1904. Catalogus Mammalium tam Viventium quam Fossilium. Quinquennale supplementum, anno 1904. Fasc. 1. Primates, Prosimiae, Chiroptera, Insectivora, Carnivora, Pinnipedia. Berolini : R. Friedländer & Sohn iv 288 pp.
• van Dyck, S. & Strahan, R. 2008. The Mammals of Australia. Third Edition. Sydney : Reed New Holland 887 pp.
• Webber, J. 1992. Preliminary observations on the northern blossom-bat Macroglossus minimus in captivity. Northern Territory Naturalist 13: 25-29
• Woodside, D.p. & Pyke, G.H. 1995. A comparison of bats and birds as pollinators of Banksia integrifolia in northern New South Wales, Australia. Australian Mammalogy 18: 9-18

Return to MACROGLOSSINAE profile page.