Subspecies Saccolaimus saccolaimus nudicluniatus (De Vis, 1905)

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• Taphozous nudicluniatus De Vis, C.W. 1905. Bats. Annals of the Queensland Museum 6: 36-40 [publication date established from Mahoney, J.A. & Ride, W.D.L. 1975. Index to the genera and species of fossil Mammalia described from Australia and New Guinea between 1838 and 1968 (including citations of type species and primary type specimens). Spec. Publ. West. Aust. Mus. 6: 1–250 [157]] [39].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) QM J1947 ♀ skin (wet) & skull, Gowrie Creek, Cardwell, QLD; QM J1948 ♀ skin (wet), skull not extracted, Gowrie Creek, Cardwell, QLD.

Introduction

The taxonomy of the Saccolaimus saccolaimus species complex is still unresolved. Some workers (e.g. Hall et al. 2008) consider a geographic basis to the recognition of two subspecies (S. saccolaimus nudicluniatus in the eastern parts of Australian distribution, and S. saccolaimus saccolaimus in the Northern Territory). Genetic analyses by Milne et al. (2009) could not find significant differences between NT and QLD populations, but as their sample include only Australian material they refrained to assign it to any of the two subspecies. Woinarski et al. (2014) and Jackson & Groves (2015) recognise only S. saccolaimus nudicluniatus as being present in Australia.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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)

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Ecological Descriptors

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

General References

Hall, L.S., Thomson, B.G. & Milne. D.J. 2008. Bare-rumped Sheath-tailed Bat Saccolaimus saccolaimus (Temminck, 1838). pp. 475-476 in van Dyck, S. & Strahan, R. The Mammals of Australia. Third Edition. Sydney : Reed New Holland 887 pp.

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

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

Woinarski, J.C.Z., Burbidge, A.A. & Harrison, P.L. 2014. The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012. Melbourne, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing 1038 pp. [511]

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