Subspecies Nyctophilus geoffroyi pacificus (J.E. Gray, 1831)

Museums

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• Barbastellus pacificus Gray, J.E. 1831. Descriptions of some new genera and species of bats. pp. 37-38 in Gray, J.E. (ed.). The Zoological Miscellany. London : Treuttel, Würtz & Co. Vol. 1. [38].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 84.410 (=47a) ♂ skin (wet) & skull, 'Islands of the Pacific ocean' see J.E. Gray's BMNH manuscript Catalogue of Mammalia Vol. 1 Primates and Chiroptera (entry for species 47a).

  Type locality references:

  Thomas, O. 1915. Notes on the genus Nyctophilus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 493-499 [495] (observes that the exact locality of the type of B. pacificus is unknown, but he names SE Australia and Tasmania as the habitat of that form).
• Nyctophilus unicolor Tomes, R.F. 1858. A monograph of the genus Nyctophilus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1858: 25-37 [publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [440]] [33].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 59.11.18.11 skin (wet, skull not extracted), TAS (as Van Diemen's Land); BMNH 7.1.1.342 skin & skull, TAS (as Van Diemen's Land); BMNH 7.1.1.343 skin & skull included, TAS (as Van Diemen's Land).
• Nyctophilus geayi Trouessart, E.-L. 1915. Nouvelle espèce de genre Nyctophilus (N. geayi). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 21: 146-147 [146].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP 1979.386 ♂ skin (wet) (skull not found in MNHP), forests bordering Nicholson River, VIC (as Forêts au bord de la rivière Nicholson dans l'État de Victoria).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, gregarious, predator, subtropical, under bark, volant, woodland.

History of changes