Species Scotorepens greyii (J.E. Gray, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scotophilus greyii Gray, J.E. 1843. List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 216 pp. [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] [30].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 42.8.17.12 ♀ skin & skull (the holotype is Scotophilus greyii specimen c of Gray loc. cit.), Port Essington, NT.
• Scoteinus balstoni caprenus Troughton, E. le G. 1937. Six new bats (Microchiroptera) from the Australasian region. The Australian Zoologist 8: 274-281 [279].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM M1322 ♂ skin (wet) & skull, Roebuck Bay, WA.
• Scoteinus orion aquilo Troughton, E. le G. 1937. Six new bats (Microchiroptera) from the Australasian region. The Australian Zoologist 8: 274-281 [278].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM 209 (Palmer Register) ♀ skin (wet) & skull, Bowen, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kitchener, D.J. & Caputi, N. 1985. Systematic revision of Australian Scoteanax and Scotorepens (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), with remarks on relationships to other Nycticeiini. Records of the Western Australian Museum 12: 85-146 [119]

Generic Combinations

• Scotophilus greyii (J.E. Gray, 1843).
• Scotorepens greyii (J.E. Gray, 1843).
• Scoteinus greyii (J.E. Gray, 1843).
• Nycticeius greyii (J.E. Gray, 1843).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Gregarious, predator, subtropical.

Extra Ecological Information

Roosts in diverse places.

General References

Churchill, S. 1998. Australian Bats. Sydney : Reed Books.

Dwyer, P.D. 1965. Flight patterns of some eastern Australian bats. Victorian Naturalist 82: 36-41

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

Jones, G. & Corben, C. 1993. Echolocation calls from six species of microchiropteran bats in south-eastern Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 16: 35-38

Koopman, K.F. 1978. The genus Nycticeius (Vespertilionidae), with special reference to tropical Australia. pp. 165-171 in Olembo, R.J., Castelino, J.B. & Mutere, F.A. (eds). Proceedings of the 4th International Bat Research Conference. Nairobi : Kenya Literature Bureau.

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

McKean, J.L. 1966. Some new distributional records of Broad-nosed Bats (Nycticeius spp.). Victorian Naturalist 83: 25-30

Oliveira, M.C. de 1998. Towards standardized descriptions of the echolocation calls of microchiropteran bats: pulse design terminology for seventeen species from Queensland. The Australian Zoologist 30: 405-411

Richards, G.C. 1995. Little Broad-nosed Bat Scotorepens greyii. pp. 530-531 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Little Broad-nosed Bat)

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