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Species Miniopterus australis (Tomes, 1858)

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Species Miniopterus australis (Tomes, 1858)

Little Bentwing-bat

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, closed forest, gregarious, open forest, predator, subtropical.

 

General References

Baker, J.R. & Bird, T.F. 1936. The seasons in a tropical rainforest (New Hebrides).—Part 4. Insectivorous bats (Vespertilionidae and Rhinolophidae). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 40: 143-161 pl. 4

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

Dwyer, P.D. 1968. The biology, origin, and adaptation of Miniopterus australis (Chiroptera) in New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 49-68

Dwyer, P.D. 1995. Little Bentwing-bat Miniopterus australis. pp. 492-493 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Hall, L.S. & Richards, G. 2003. Flying around underground: cave bats. pp. 111-126 in Finlayson, B. & Hamilton, E. (eds). Beneath the Surface: A Natural History of Australian Caves. Sydney : UNSW Press.

Hill, J.E. 1983. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Indo-Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 45: 103-208

Jones, G. & Corben, C. 1993. Echolocation calls from six species of microchiropteran bats in south-eastern Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 16: 35-38

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

Maeda, K. 1982. Studies on the classification of Miniopterus in Eurasia, Australia and Melanesia. Honyurui Kagaku suppl. 1: 1–176.

Maeda, K. 1984. Geographic and sexual variations of the external and skull characters in bats of the Miniopterus australis group. Journal of the Mammal Society of Japan 10: 9-33

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

Medway, Lord 1971. Observations of social and reproductive biology of the bent winged Bat Miniopterus australis in Northern Borneo. Journal of Zoology, London 165: 261-273 1 pl.

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

Richardson, E.G. 1977. The biology and evolution of the reproductive cycle of Miniopterus schreibersii and M. australis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Journal of Zoology, London 183: 353-375

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

Sun, X. in Sun, X. & Marshall, S.A. 2003. Systematics of Phasia Latreille (Diptera: Tachinidae). Zootaxa 276: 1-320

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

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
04-Dec-2018 CHIROPTERA 27-May-2022 MODIFIED
22-Nov-2010 22-Nov-2010 MOVED
04-Dec-2018 18-Nov-2010 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)