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Species Saccolaimus saccolaimus (Temminck, 1838)

Bare-rumped Sheathtail-bat, Naked-rumped Sheathtail-bat

Introduction

Taxonomy of Australian populations still unresolved (Woinarski et al. 2014). Milne et al. (2009) found many misidentifications among museum specimens and recommend "… genetic testing of all museum specimens of Australian Saccolaimus to clarify species’ distributions [...] for both S. saccolaimus and S. flaviventris". Jackson & Groves (2015) stated that the validity of the subspecies warrant further taxonomic investigation.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Cape York south to Townsville and northern Arnhem Land


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW) ; NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, closed forest, coastal, gregarious, predator, treeholes, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Roosts also include a variety of man-made structures.

 

General References

Chimimba, C.T. & Kitchener, D.J. 1991. A systematic revision of Australian Emballonuridae (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Records of the Western Australian Museum 15: 203-265

Compton, A. & Johnson, P.M. 1983. Observations of the sheath-tailed bat, Taphozous saccolaimus Temminck (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae), in the Townsville region of Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 6: 83-87

Compton, A. & Johnson, P.M. 1983. Observations of the sheath-tailed bat, Taphozous saccolaimus Temminck (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae), in the Townsville region of Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 6: 83-87

Friend, G.R. & Braithwaite, R.W. 1986. Bat fauna of Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory. Australian Mammalogy 9: 43-52

Goodwin, R.E. 1979. The bats of Timor: systematics and ecology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 163: 73-122

Hall, L.S. 1995. Bare-rumped Sheathtail-bat Saccolaimus saccolaimus. pp. 469-470 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Honacki, J.H., Kinman, K.E. & Koeppl, J.W. (eds) 1982. Mammal Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Lawrence, Kansas : Allen Press & Assoc. Syst. Coll. ix 694 pp.

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [255]

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

McKean, J.L., Friend, G.R. & Hertog, A.L. 1981. Occurrence of the sheath-tailed bat, Taphozous saccolaimus in the Northern Territory. Northern Territory Naturalist 1: 20

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

Milne, D.J., Jackling, F.C., Sidhu, M. & Appleton, B.R. 2009. Shedding new light on old species identifications: morphological and genetic evidence suggest a need for conservation status review of the critically endangered bat, Saccolaimus saccolaimus. Wildlife Research 36(6): 496-508

Stephan, H., Nelson, J.E. & Frahm, H.D. 1981. Brain size comparison in Chiroptera. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 19: 195-222

Woinarski, J.C.Z., Burbidge, A.A. & Harrison, P.L. 2014. The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012. Melbourne, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing 1038 pp. [512]

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Bare-rumped Sheathtail-bat, Naked-rumped Sheathtail-bat)

 

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)
14-Dec-2022 EMBALLONURIDAE 22-Nov-2022 MODIFIED
04-Dec-2018 CHIROPTERA 02-Nov-2018 MODIFIED
04-Dec-2018 18-Nov-2010 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)