Subspecies Murina florium florium Thomas, 1908

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murina florium Thomas, O. 1908. New bats and rodents in the British Museum collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 2: 370-375 [371].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 63.12.26.14 skin & skull, Flores Pulau (as Flores), Indonesia.

 

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, coprophagous, predator.

 

General References

Burbidge, A.A., Eldridge, M.D.B., Groves, C., Harrison, P.L., Jackson, S.M., Reardon, T.B., Westerman, M. & Woinarski, J.C.Z. 2014. A list of native Australian mammal species and subspecies. pp. 15-32 in Woinarski, J.C.Z., Burbidge, A.A. & Harrison, P.L. The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012. Melbourne, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing 1038 pp. [24]

Clague, C.I., Coles, R.B., Whybird, O.J., Spencer, H.J. & Flemons, P. 1999. The occurrence and distribution of the tube-nosed insectivorous bat (Murina florium) in Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 121: 175-191

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [266]

Koopman, K.F. 1984. Taxonomic and distributional notes on tropical Australian bats. American Museum Novitates 2778: 1-48

Kutt, A.S. & Schulz, M. 2000. Distribution and habitat of the flute-nosed bat Murina florium (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in the wet tropics of north-eastern Queensland. The Australian Zoologist 31: 458-467

Reardon, T.B., Robson, S.K.A., Parsons, J.G. & Inkster, T. 2010. Review of the threatened status of microchiropteran bat species on Cape York Peninsula. Final report Care for Country programme - Cape York Peninsula Threatened Species grant. 84 pp. [43]

Richards, G.C., Hall, L.H., Helman, P.M. & Churchill, S.K. 1982. First discovery of a species of the rare Tube-nosed Insectivorous Bat (Murina) in Australia. Australian Mammalogy 5: 149-151

Schulz, M., Richards, G.C., Coles, R.B., Spencer, H.J. & Kutt, A.S. 2008. Flute-nosed Bat, Murina florium. pp. 514-515 in van Dyck, S. & Strahan, R. The Mammals of Australia. Third Edition. Sydney : Reed New Holland 887 pp.

Schulz, M & Hannah, D. 1998. Relative abundance, diet and roost selection in the tube-nosed insect bat, Murina florium, on the Atherton Tablelands, Australia. Wildlife Research 25: 261-272

Van Deusen, H.M. 1961. New Guinea record of the Tube-nosed Insectivorous Bat, Murina. Journal of Mammalogy 42: 531-533

Winter, J. 1991. Mammals. pp. 43-54 in Nix, H.A. & Switzer, M.A. (eds). Rainforest Animals: Atlas of vertebrates endemic to Australia's wet tropics. Canberra : Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service 111 pp. [Kowari]

Ziegler, A.C. 1982. An ecological check-list of New Guinea Recent mammals. pp. 863-894 in Gressitt, J.L. (ed.). Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea. The Hague & London : W. Junk Vol. 2(4) vii 983 pp.

 

Common Name References

Churchill, S. 2008. Australian Bats. Sydney : Allen & Unwin 2nd edition, 255 pp. [126] (Flute-nosed Bat)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	CHIROPTERA	05-Oct-2018	ADDED