Species Macroderma gigas (Dobson, 1880)

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Species Macroderma gigas (Dobson, 1880)

Ghost Bat

Megaderma gigas Dobson, G.E. 1880. On some new or rare species of Chiroptera in the collection of the Göttingen Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880: 461-465 pl. 46 [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 [73]] [461].
Type data:
Holotype ZFMK 78.525 ♂ skin (wet) & skull (transferred from the Göttingen Museum to ZFMK Bonn in 1978, see Hutterer, R. 1984. Die Wirbeltiersammlungen des Museums Alexander Koenig Museum. I. Säugetiere. Bonn. Zool. Monogr. 19: 9–48 [29]), 'Mount Margaret', Wilson River, QLD.
Type locality references:
Nelson, J. 1989. Where is the type locality of Macroderma gigas? Macroderma 4: 70-72.
Macroderma gigas saturata Douglas, A.M. 1962. Macroderma gigas saturata (Chiroptera, Megadermatidae) a new subspecies from the Kimberley Division of Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 8: 59-61 [60].
Type data:
Holotype WAM M4416 ♀ skin (wet) & skull, cave at Kalumburu, Northwest Kimberley Division, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

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] [119] (based on Koopman, K.F. 1984. Taxonomic and distributional notes on tropical Australian bats. American Museum Novitates 2778: 1–48 [7])

Generic Combinations

Macroderma gigas (Dobson, 1880). —
Miller, G.S. 1906. Twelve new genera of bats. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 19: 83-85 [84] (new combination as type species of the genus Macroderma)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

"… patchy and widespread …" van Dyck & Strahan (2008: 449)

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)