Subspecies Miniopterus orianae oceanensis Maeda, 1982

Museums

Regional Maps

• Miniopterus oceanensis Maeda, K. 1982. Studies on the classification of Miniopterus in Eurasia, Australia and Melanesia. Honyurui Kagaku suppl. 1: 1–176. [23].

  Type data:

   Holotype Cable Station, Cape York Peninsula, QLD.

Generic Combinations

• Miniopterus schreibersii oceanensis (Maeda, 1982). —
  Corbet, G.B. & Hill, J.E. 1992. The Mammals of the Indomalayan Region: A Systematic Review. Oxford : Oxford University Press pp. viii, 488. [146]
• Miniopterus orianae oceanensis (Maeda, 1982). —
  Churchill, S. 2008. Australian Bats. Sydney : Allen & Unwin 2nd edition, 255 pp. [182]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Miniopterus schreibersii Kuhl, 1817 [a misidentification]. —
  Mahoney, J.A. & Walton, D.W. 1988. Vespertilionidae. pp. 128-145 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 5 x 274 pp. [136] (as junior synonym)

Introduction

Tian et al. (2004) first proposed to recognise Miniopterus orianae oceanensis at species level however the status of this taxon has not been resolved.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [264]

Tian, L., Liang, B., Maeda, K. Metzner, W., & Zhang, S. 2004. Molecular studies on the classification of Miniopterus schreibersii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences. Folia Zoologica 53(3): 303–311

Common Name References

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [264] (Eastern Bent-winged Bat)

History of changes