Bibliography for Syconycteris australis (Peters, 1867)

• ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study.
• Andersen, K. 1911. Six new fruit-bats of the genera Macroglossus and Syconycteris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 7: 641-643
• Bartholomew, G.A., Leitner, P. & Nelson, J.E. 1964. Body temperature, oxygen consumption, and heart rate in three species of Australian flying foxes. Physiological Zoology 37: 179-198
• Birt, P., Hall, L.S. & Smith, G.C. 1997. Ecomorphology of the tongues of Australian Megachiroptera (Chiroptera: Pteropidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 45: 369-384
• Geiser, F., Cockburn, D.K., Körtner, G. & Law, B.S. 1996. Thermoregulation, energy metabolism, and topor in blossom-bats, Syconycteris australis (Megachiroptera). Journal of Zoology, London 239: 583-590
• Hill, J.E. 1983. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Indo-Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 45: 103-208
• 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.
• Kitchener, D.J., Packer, W.C. & Maryanto, I. 1994. Morphological variation in Maluku populations of Syconycteris australis (Peters, 1867) (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 16: 485-498
• Koopman, K.F. 1979. Zoogeography of mammals from islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea. American Museum Novitates 2690: 1-17
• Koopman, K.F. 1982. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 109 Bats from eastern Papua and the east Papuan Islands. American Museum Novitates 2747: 1-34
• Koopman, K.F. 1984. Taxonomic and distributional notes on tropical Australian bats. American Museum Novitates 2778: 1-48
• Laurie, E.M.O. & Hill, J.E. 1954. List of Land Mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and Adjacent Islands 1758–1952. London : British Museum 175 pp. 3 pls.
• Law, B.S. 1992. Physiological factors affecting pollen use by Queensland blossom bats (Syconycteris australis). Functional Ecology 6: 257-264
• Law, B.S. 1992. The maintenance nitrogen requirements of the Queensland blossom bat (Syconycteris australis) on a sugar/pollen diet: is nitrogen a limiting resource? Physiological Zoology 65: 634-648
• Law, B.S. 1993. Roosting and foraging ecology of the Queensland blossom bat (Syconycteris australis) in north-eastern New South Wales: flexibility in response to seasonal variation. Wildlife Research 20: 419-431
• Law, B.S. 1993. Sugar preferences of the Queensland blossom bat, Syconycteris australis: a pilot study. Australian Mammalogy 16: 17-21
• Law, B.S. 1994. Banksia nectar and pollen; dietary items affecting the abundance of the common blossom bat, Syconycteris australis, in southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 19: 425-434
• Law, B.S. 1994. Climatic limitation of the southern distribution of the common blossom bat Syconycteris australis in New South Wales. Australian Journal of Ecology 19: 366-374
• Law, B.S. 1995. The effect of energy supplementation on the local abundance of the common blossom bat, Syconycteris australis, in south-eastern Australia. Oikos 72: 42-50
• Law, B.S. 1997. The lunar cycle influences time of roost departure in the common blossum bat, Syconycteris australis. Australian Mammalogy 20: 21-24
• Law, B.S. & Spencer, H.J. 1995. Common Blossom-bat Syconycteris australis. pp. 423-425 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
• Lawrence, M.A. 1991. Biological observations on a collection of New Guinea Syconycteris australis (Chiroptera, Pteropodidae) in the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum Novitates 3024: 1-27
• McKean, J.L. & Hamilton-Smith, E. 1967. Litter size and maternity sites in Australian bats (Chiroptera). Victorian Naturalist 84: 203-206
• Mickleburgh, S.P., Hutson, A.M. & Racey, P.A. (Compilers) 1992. Old World Fruit Bats: An action plan for their conservation. Gland : IUCN 252 pp.
• Nelson, J.E. 1964. Notes on Syconycteris australis, Peters, 1867 (Megachiroptera). Mammalia 28: 429-432 pl. 21
• Peters, W. 1867. Herpetologische Notizen. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1867: 13-37
• Smith, J.D. & Hood, C.S. 1981. Preliminary notes on bats from the Bismarck Archipelago (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Science in New Guinea 8: 81-121
• Stephan, H., Nelson, J.E. & Frahm, H.D. 1981. Brain size comparison in Chiroptera. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 19: 195-222
• Stephan, H. & Nelson, J.E. 1981. Brains of Australian Chiroptera 1. Encephalization and macromorphology. Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 653-670
• Sussman, R.W. & Raven, P.H. 1978. Pollination by lemurs and marsupials: an archaic coevolutionary system. Science (Washington, D.C.) 200: 731-736
• Woodside, D.p. & Pyke, G.H. 1995. A comparison of bats and birds as pollinators of Banksia integrifolia in northern New South Wales, Australia. Australian Mammalogy 18: 9-18

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