Species Taphozous australis Gould, 1854

Museums

Regional Maps

• Taphozous australis Gould, J. 1854. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 6. [1 unnumbered page of text, 14th pl. of Pt 6] [= Vol. 3 pl. 32].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 55.11.7.10 skin & skull, maritime caves in sandstone cliffs, Albany Is., QLD; BMNH 55.11.7.11 skin & skull, maritime caves in sandstone cliffs, Albany Is., QLD.
• Taphozous fumosus 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]] [37].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM J1951 ♂ skin (wet) skull not extracted (included), Gowrie Creek, Cardwell, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Troughton, E. le G. 1925. A revision of the genera Taphozous and Saccolaimus (Chiroptera) in Australia and New Guinea, including a new species, and a note on two Malayan forms. Records of the Australian Museum 14: 313-341 pls 47-48 [332]

 

Generic Combinations

• Saccolaimus australis (Gould, 1854).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cape York Peninsula and northern portion of NE coastal Qld.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, coastal, insectivorous, predator, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Roosts also include rock ledges, piled boulders and abandoned structures, solitary or small social aggregations.

 

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

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.

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

Kulzer, E., Nelson, J.E., McKean, J.L. & Möhres, F.P. 1970. Untersuchungen über die Temperaturregulation australischer Fledermäuse (Microchiroptera). Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Physiologie 69: 426-451

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.

Richards, G.C. 1995. Coastal Sheathtail-bat Taphozous australis. 471 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

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

Ziegler, A.C. 1982. An ecological check-list of New Guinea Recent mammals. pp. 863-894 in Gressitt, J.L. (ed.). Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea. The Hague & London : W. Junk Vol. 2(4) vii 983 pp.

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (North-eastern Sheathtail-bat)

Clayton, M., Wombey, J.C., Mason, I.J., Chesser, R.T. & Wells, A. 2006. CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing iv 162 pp. [109] (Coastal Sheathtail-bat)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Dec-2018		18-Nov-2010	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)