History of changes

• Chalinolobus Peters, W. 1866. Fernere Mittheilungen zur Kenntniss der Flederthiere, namentlich über Arten des Leidener und Britischen Museums. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1866: 672-681 [680].

  Type species:

   Vespertilio tuberculatus Gray, 1843 by monotypy (as Vespertilio tuberculatus Forster).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Koopman, K.F. 1971. Taxonomic notes on Chalinolobus and Glauconycteris (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). American Museum Novitates 2451: 1-10 [4] (provides extralimital synonymy)

Introduction

Parnaby et al. (2024) described a new species from southern Papua New Guinea (Chalinolobusorarius) and suggested the identity of specimens of C. nigrogriseus and C. gouldii from northern Australia should be reviewed to determine whether this new species also occurs in Australia

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

VESPERTILIONIDAE: Chalinolobus tuberculatus (Gray, 1843) [=Vespertilio tuberculatus Gray, 1843, see Dobson (1878: 248–249) and Thomas (1905: 422–423)]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

New Guinea; the genus is represented in Africa by the subgenus Glauconycteris.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
• New Caledonia
• New Zealand

Distribution References

General References

Dobson, G.E. 1878. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xlii 567 pp. 30 pls.

Parnaby, H.E., King, A.G., Hamilton, S. & Eldridge, M.D.B. 2024. A new species of lobe-lipped bat (Chalinolobus: Vespertilionidae) from southern Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 5492(3): 301-324

Thomas, O. 1905. On some Australasian mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 422-428

History of changes

• Chalinolobus dwyeri Ryan, R.M. 1966. A new and some imperfectly known Australian Chalinolobus and the taxonomic status of African Glauconycteris. Journal of Mammalogy 47: 86-91 [89].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV C4021 ♂ skin & skull, mine tunnel, Copeton, 14 miles S of Inverell, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, gregarious, predator, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Roosts include mines and mud nests of Fairy Martins, hibernates*.

General References

Dwyer, P.D. 1966. Observations on Chalinolobus dwyeri (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Australia. Journal of Mammalogy 47: 716-718

Hoye, G.A. & Dwyer, P.D. 1995. Large-eared Pied Bat Chalinolobus dwyeri. pp. 510-511 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

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

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Large Pied 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. [110] (Large-eared Pied Bat)

History of changes

• Scotophilus gouldii Gray, J.E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia in Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. pp. 397-414 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841] [398-400, 405-406, 412-413].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 41.1516 skin & skull, Launceston, TAS.
• Chalinolobus gouldii venatoris Thomas, O. 1908. New bats and rodents in the British Museum collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 2: 370-375 [372] [as Chalinolobus gouldi venatoris].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 6.3.9.4 ♀ skin & skull, Alexandria, NT.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 6: i-xii 1-122 [97]
• Chruszcz, B. & Barclay, R.M.R. 2002. Chalinolobus gouldii. Mammalian Species 690: 1-4 (recognition of subspecies not justified)
• van Dyck, S. & Strahan, R. 2008. The Mammals of Australia. Third Edition. Sydney : Reed New Holland 887 pp. [534] (subspecies no longer recognised)

Generic Combinations

• Chalinolobus gouldii (J.E. Gray, 1841).

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Kangaroo Is., Norfolk Is., range does not extend onto Cape York.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), 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), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, gregarious, open forest, predator, subtropical, tall shrubland, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Insectivorous, roosts in diverse places, experiences torpor in cooler part of range.

General References

Chruszcz, B. & Barclay, R.M.R. 2002. Chalinolobus gouldii. Mammalian Species 690: 1-4

Dixon, J.M. 1995. Gould's Wattled Bat Chalinolobus gouldii. pp. 512-513 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Dixon, J.M. & Huxley, L. 1989. Observations on a maternity colony of Gould's wattled bat Chalinolobus gouldii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionida). Mammalia 53: 395-414

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

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.

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

Kitchener, D.J. 1975. Reproduction in female Gould's Wattled Bat, Chalinolobus gouldii (Gray) (Vespertilionidae), in Western Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 23: 29-42

Koopman, K.F. 1971. Taxonomic notes on Chalinolobus and Glauconycteris (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). American Museum Novitates 2451: 1-10

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

Lumsden, L.F., Bennettt, A.F. & Silins, J.E. 2002. Selection of roost sites by the lesser long-eared bat (Nyctophilus geoffroyi) and Gould's wattled bar (Chalinolobus gouldii) in south-eastern Australia. Journal of Zoology, London 257: 207-218

Lumsden, L.F. & Andrews, C.K. 1989. Observations of an assisted parturition of a Gould's wattled-bat, Chalinolobus gouldii. Macroderma 4: 66-69

Lumsden, L.F. & Bennett, A.F. 1995. Bats of a semi-arid environment in south-eastern Australia: Biogeography, ecology and conservation. Wildlife Research 22: 217-240

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

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

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

Taylor, R.J. & O'Neill, M.G. 1986. Composition of the bat communities in Tasmanian forests. Australian Mammalogy 9: 125-130

Tidemann, C.R. 1986. Morphological variation in Australian and island populations of Gould's wattled bat, Chalinolobus gouldii (Gray) (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 34: 503-514

Vestjens, W.J.M. & Hall, L.S. 1977. Stomach contents of forty-two species of bats from the Australasian region. Australian Wildlife Research 4: 25-35

Woodside, D.P. & Taylor, K.J. 1985. Echolocation calls of fourteen bats from eastern New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 8: 279-298

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Gould's Wattled Bat)

History of changes

• Scotophilus morio Gray, J.E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia in Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. pp. 397-414 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841] [405].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 37.4.8.118 skin & skull, TAS.
• Scotophilus australis Gray, J.E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia in Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. pp. 397-414 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841] [398-400, 406, 414].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (not found in BMNH), Sydney and its neighbourhood, NSW; Liverpool Range, NSW; Adelaide and its vicinity, SA; Canning River, WA; Hobart, TAS.
• Scotophilus microdon Tomes, R.F. 1859. Description of six hitherto undescribed species of bats. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1859: 68-79 [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 [71]] [68].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 41.1513 ♂ skin & skull mandible only (included), SA, TAS (as Van Diemen's Land); the BMNH register records the locality of BMNH 41.1513 as South Australia.
• Vespertilio muelleri Becker, L. 1860. Notes on an Australian bat, No. II. Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria 4: 41-43 1 pl. [41].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Melbourne (as Dr. Ferd. Mueller's study), VIC.
• Chalinolobus signifer Dobson, G.E. 1876. Description of a new species of Chalinolobus from Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 17: 289-290 [289].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 76.3.29.11 ♂ skin (wet) & skull, Peak Downs, QLD.

  Type locality references:

  Dobson, G.E. 1878. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xlii 567 pp. 30 pls. [250].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 6: i-xii 1-122 [97] (for S. morio Gray, S. australis Gray, S. microdon Tomes and C. signifer Dobson, in synonymy as Chalinolobus morio (Gray))
• Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988] [131] (for V. muelleri Becker)

Generic Combinations

• Chalinolobus morio (J.E. Gray, 1841).

Distribution

States

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

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, gregarious, montane, predator, subtropical, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Hibernates, roosts include roof cavities.

General References

Hall, L.S. 1970. A collection of the bat, Chalinolobus morio (Gray), from the Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia. Helictite, Journal of Australasian Cave Research 8: 51-57

Kitchener, D.J. & Coster, P. 1981. Reproduction in female Chalinolobus morio (Gray) (Vespertilionidae) in South-western Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 305-320

Lumsden, L.F. & Bennett, A.F. 1995. Bats of a semi-arid environment in south-eastern Australia: Biogeography, ecology and conservation. Wildlife Research 22: 217-240

Lunney, D., Barker, J. & Priddel, D. 1985. Movements and day roosts of the chocolate wattled bat, Chalinolobus morio (Gray)(Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in a logged forest. Australian Mammalogy 8: 313-317

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

Ryan, R.M. 1966. A new and some imperfectly known Australian Chalinolobus and the taxonomic status of African Glauconycteris. Journal of Mammalogy 47: 86-91

Savva, N. & Taylor, R. 1986. Bat remains in a Tasmanian cave. Macroderma 1: 21-22

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

Taylor, R.J. & O'Neill, M.G. 1986. Composition of the bat communities in Tasmanian forests. Australian Mammalogy 9: 125-130

Taylor, R.J. & Savva, N.M. 1988. Use of roost sites by four species of bats in state forest in south-eastern Tasmania. Australian Wildlife Research 15: 637-645

Tidemann, C.R. 1995. Chocolate Wattled Bat Chalinolobus morio. pp. 513-514 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Vestjens, W.J.M. & Hall, L.S. 1977. Stomach contents of forty-two species of bats from the Australasian region. Australian Wildlife Research 4: 25-35

Woodside, D.P. & Taylor, K.J. 1985. Echolocation calls of fourteen bats from eastern New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 8: 279-298

Young, R.A. 1979. Observations on parturition, litter size, and foetal development at birth in the Chocolate Wattled Bat, Chalinolobus morio (Vespertilionidae). Victorian Naturalist 96: 90-91

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Chocolate Wattled Bat)

History of changes

Generic Combinations

• Chalinolobus nigrogriseus (Gould, 1856).

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Van Deusen, H.M. & Koopman, K.F. 1971. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 95 The genus Chalinolobus (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Taxonomic review of Chalinolobus picatus, C. nigrogriseus and C. rogersi. American Museum Novitates 2468: 1-30 [4]

Introduction

Mahoney (1988: 130) listed synonyms, following Van Deusen & Koopman (1971), rather than subspecies.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, predator, subtropical.

Extra Ecological Information

Roosts in rock crevices, may glean insects from ground or other surfaces.

General References

Allison, F.R. 1995. Hoary Wattled Bat Chalinolobus nigrogriseus. pp. 515-516 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Fenton, M.B. 1982. Echolocation calls and patterns of hunting and habitat use of bats (Microchiroptera) from Chillagoe, north Queensland. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 417-425

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

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

Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988] [130]

Menzies, J.I. 1971. The Lobe-lipped Bat (Chalinolobus nigrogriseus Gould) in New Guinea. Records of the Papua New Guinea Museum 1: 6-8

Milledge, D., Parnaby, H. & Phillips, S. 1992. Recent records of the hoary bat Chalinolobus nigrogriseus from New South Wales. The Australian Zoologist 28: 55-57

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

Ryan, R.M. 1966. A new and some imperfectly known Australian Chalinolobus and the taxonomic status of African Glauconycteris. Journal of Mammalogy 47: 86-91

Van Deusen, H.M. 1969. The Hoary Wattled Bat of north Queensland. North Queensland Naturalist 36(148): 5-6

Van Deusen, H.M. & Koopman, K.F. 1971. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 95 The genus Chalinolobus (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Taxonomic review of Chalinolobus picatus, C. nigrogriseus and C. rogersi. American Museum Novitates 2468: 1-30 [4]

Vestjens, W.J.M. & Hall, L.S. 1977. Stomach contents of forty-two species of bats from the Australasian region. Australian Wildlife Research 4: 25-35

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. (Hoary Wattled Bat)

History of changes

• Scotophilus nigrogriseus Gould, J. 1856. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 8. [1 unnumbered page of text, 15th pl of Pt 8] [= Vol. 3 pl. 44].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 56.10.28.3 skin & skull, neighbourhood of Moreton Bay, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, predator, subtropical.

History of changes

• Chalinolobus rogersi Thomas, O. 1909. Some mammals from N.E. Kimberley, Northern Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 3: 149-152 [150].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 9.4.23.1 ♂ skin & skull, Parry Creek, WA 10 ft.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, predator, subtropical.

History of changes

• Scotophilus picatus Gould, J. 1852. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 4. [the date 1849 printed on the title page of Sturt, op. cit. is not the publication date of that work, see Mahoney, J.A. 1975. The identity and status of Thomas' 'lectotype' of Leporillus apicalis (Gould, 1853) [Rodentia: Muridae]. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 99: 101–104 [104]] [1 unnumbered page of text, 15th pl of Pt 4].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 53.10.22.33 ♀ skin & skull (the holotype was collected by the Sturt Expedition to Central Australia in 1844–1846; the location of Depôt Glen is given by Sturt, C. 1848. Narrative of an Expedition in Central Australia, Performed under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Year 1844, 5, and 6. Together with a notice of the Province of South Australia, in 1847. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 1 x, iv pp. 5-416, 8 pls, Vol.2 vi 308 + 92 pp. 8 pls. [324] as 29º40'14"S, 141º29'41"E, but its correct location is 29º40'S, 141º47'E), Depôt Glen, Preservation Creek, about 13 km NW of Milparinka, (as the depôt), NSW [29°40‘S 141°47‘E].

Generic Combinations

• Chalinolobus picatus (Gould, 1852).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, gregarious, predator, volant.

General References

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

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

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

Pennay, M. & Freeman, J. 2005. Day roost of the little pied bat Chalinolobus picatus (Gould) (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in inland northern New South Wales. The Australian Zoologist 35(2): 166-167

Richards, G.C. 1995. Little Pied Bat Chalinolobus picatus. pp. 517-518 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Ryan, R.M. 1966. A new and some imperfectly known Australian Chalinolobus and the taxonomic status of African Glauconycteris. Journal of Mammalogy 47: 86-91

Schulz, M., Oliviera, M.C. de & Eyre, T. 1994. Notes on the little pied bat Chalinolobus picatus in central Queensland. Queensland Naturalist 33: 35-38

Van Deusen, H.M. & Koopman, K.F. 1971. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 95 The genus Chalinolobus (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Taxonomic review of Chalinolobus picatus, C. nigrogriseus and C. rogersi. American Museum Novitates 2468: 1-30

Vestjens, W.J.M. & Hall, L.S. 1977. Stomach contents of forty-two species of bats from the Australasian region. Australian Wildlife Research 4: 25-35

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Little Pied Bat)

History of changes

• Falsistrellus Troughton, E. le G. 1944. Furred Animals of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xxviii 374 pp. 25 pls. [publication date established from letter from Mr. R. Walsh, Angus & Robertson Publishers to J.A. Mahoney dated 7 June 1984] [349].

  Type species:

   Vespertilio tasmaniensis Gould, 1858 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

History of changes

• Falsistrellus mackenziei Kitchener, D.J., Caputi, N. & Jones, B. 1986. Revision of Australo-Papuan Pipistrellus and Falsistrellus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 12: 435-495 [451].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM M5149 adult ♂ (in spirit) skull removed, Donelly, WA [34°06'S 115°58'E].
  Paratype(s) WAM.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Gregarious, predator, tall woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Widespread in forested areas of SW Australia.

General References

Bullen, R.D. & McKenzie, N.L. 2004. Bat flight-muscle mass: implications for foraging strategy. Australian Journal of Zoology 52: 605-622

Hosken, D.J. & O'Shea, J.E. 1994. Falsistrellus mackenziei at Jandakot. Western Australian Naturalist 19: 351

Start, A.N. & McKenzie, N.L. 1995. Western False Pipistrelle Falsistrellus mackenziei. pp. 518-519 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. (Western False Pipistrelle)

History of changes

• Vespertilio tasmaniensis Gould, J. 1858. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 10. [1 unnumbered page of text, 14th pl of Pt 10] [= Vol. 3 pl. 48; the specific name is spelled tasmanensis (cover and 14th pl. of Pt 10) and tasmaniensis (unnumbered page of text) by Gould; the first reviser is apparently Gould, J. 1863. The Mammals of Australia. Pt 13. London : J. Gould [xxxix] and he adopts the spelling tasmaniensis].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 43.2.22.1 skin & skull included (syntype BMNH 43.2.22.1 is Noctulina tasmanensis specimen a of Gray, J.E. 1843. List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 216 pp. [194]; the number 43.2.22.6 written on the skull of the syntype is incorrect), TAS, Philippine Ils and the 'continent of India'; the locality given for the specimen by Gray, loc. cit. is Van Diemen's Land.

  Secondary source:

   Gould, J. 1863. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 13.
• Vesperugo krefftii Peters, W. 1869. Über neue oder weniger bekannte Flederthiere, besonders des Pariser Museums. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869: 391-406 [404].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 3543 ♀ skin (wet, skull not extracted), NSW (as Neu-Süd-Wales).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Thomas, O. 1906. On mammals collected in south-west Australia for Mr. W.E. Balston. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1906: 468-478 [publication date established from Duncan (1937: 76)]
• Kitchener, D.J., Caputi, N. & Jones, B. 1986. Revision of Australo-Papuan Pipistrellus and Falsistrellus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 12: 435-495 [470] (for extralimital synonyms)

Generic Combinations

• Pipistrellus tasmaniensis (Gould, 1858).
• Falsistrellus tasmaniensis (Gould, 1858).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, gregarious, migratory, predator, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Hibernates*.

General References

Adams, M., Baverstock, P.R., Watts, C.H.S. & Reardon, T. 1987. Electrophoretic resolution of species boundaries in Australian Microchiroptera. II. The Pipistrellus group (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 40: 163-170

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

Herr, A. 1998. Aspects of the ecology of insectivorous forest-dwelling bats (Microchiroptera) in the western slopes of the Australian Alps. PhD. Thesis. Charles Sturt University, NSW.

Parnaby, H. 1976. Live records for Victoria of the bat Pipistrellus tasmaniensis (Gould 1858). Victorian Naturalist 93: 190-193

Phillips, W. 1995. Eastern False Pipistrelle Falsistrellus tasmaniensis. pp. 520-521 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Phillips, W.R., Tidemann, C.R., Inwards, S.J. & Winderlich, S. 1985. The Tasmanian Pipistrelle: Pipistellus tasmaniensis Gould 1858: annual activity and breeding cycles. Macroderma 11: 2-11

Tate, G.H.H. 1942. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 47 Review of the vespertilionine bats, with special attention to genera and species of the Archbold collections. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 80: 221-297

Taylor, R.J. & O'Neill, M.G. 1986. Composition of the bat communities in Tasmanian forests. Australian Mammalogy 9: 125-130

Vestjens, W.J.M. & Hall, L.S. 1977. Stomach contents of forty-two species of bats from the Australasian region. Australian Wildlife Research 4: 25-35

Volleth, M. & Tidemann, C.R. 1991. The origin of the Australian Vespertilioninae bats, as indicated by chromosomal studies. Zeitschrift fur Säugetierkunde 56: 321-330

Woodside, D.P. & Taylor, K.J. 1985. Echolocation calls of fourteen bats from eastern New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 8: 279-298

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Eastern False Pipistrelle)

History of changes

• Myotis Kaup, J. 1829. Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte und Natürliches System der Europäischen Thierwelt. Leipzig : C.W. Leske xii 204 pp. [106, 188] [see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1958. Direction 98. Interpretation under the Plenary Powers of the nominal species Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus, 1758, and insertion in the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology of a revised entry relating to the generic name Vespertilio Linnaeus, 1758 (Class Mammalia) (Direction supplementary to Opinion 91). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1(Section F): 127–160 [145–146] for discussion of the name of the type species of Myotis Kaup].

  Type species:

   Vespertilio murinus Schreber, 1775 by monotypy (as Vespertilio murinus [105] and as Myotis murinus [188]).

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1958. Direction 98. Interpretation under the Plenary Powers of the nominal species Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus, 1758, and insertion in the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology of a revised entry relating to the generic name Vespertilio Linnaeus, 1758 (Class Mammalia) (Direction supplementary to Opinion 91). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1(Section F): 127-160.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

General References

Cooper, S.J.B., Day, P.R., Reardon, T. & Schulz, M. 2000. Assessment of species boundaries in Australian Myotis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) using mitochondrial DNA. Journal of Mammalogy 82: 328-338

Hickman, G.C. 1981. National mammal guides: a review of references to Recent faunas. Mammal Review 11: 53-85

Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988] [137] (recognised two subgenera, Leuconoe Boie, 1830, with species adversus (Horsfield, 1824) (junior synonyms Vespertilio macropus Gould, 1855 and Leuconoe moluccarum Thomas, 1915); and Selysius Bonaparte, 1841 with species australis (Dobson, 1878))

Tate, G.H.H. 1941. Results of the Archbold expeditions. No. 39 A review of the genus Myotis (Chiroptera) of Eurasia, with special reference to species occurring in the East Indies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 78: 537-565 [541-542] (see for works giving extralimital synonyms of species and subspecies)

van Dyck, S. & Strahan, R. 2008. The Mammals of Australia. Third Edition. Sydney : Reed New Holland 887 pp. [544] (no subgenera and a single species, Myotis macropus (Gould, 1855) listed for Australia)

History of changes

• Vespertilio macropus Gould, J. 1855. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 7. [1 unnumbered page of text, 13th pl of Pt 7] [= Vol. 3 pl. 47].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 53.10.22.32 skin (wet) & skull included, South Australia.
• Vespertilio australis Dobson, G.E. 1878. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xlii 567 pp. 30 pls. [317] [Tate, G.H.H. 1941. Results of the Archbold expeditions. No. 39 A review of the genus Myotis (Chiroptera) of Eurasia, with special reference to species occurring in the East Indies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 78: 537–565 [541, 546] and Koopman, K.F. 1984. Taxonomic and distributional notes on tropical Australian bats. American Museum Novitates 2778: 1–48 [11] include V. australis in the subgenus Selysius but its status there is uncertain, see Hill, J.E. 1983. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Indo-Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum Natural History Zool. 45: 103–208 [155–157], Koopman, op. cit. (11–12)].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH 19631 skin & skull, 'Australie, Sydney', NSW.

  Type locality references:

  Jentink, F.A. 1888. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle des Pays-Bas. Catalogue systématique des mammifères (rongeurs, insectivores, cheiroptères, édentés et marsupiaux). Leide : E.J. Brill Vol. 12 280 pp. [191].

  Secondary source:

   Tate, G.H.H. 1941. Results of the Archbold expeditions. No. 39 A review of the genus Myotis (Chiroptera) of Eurasia, with special reference to species occurring in the East Indies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 78: 537-565; Hill, J.E. 1983. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Indo-Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 45: 103-208; Koopman, K.F. 1984. Taxonomic and distributional notes on tropical Australian bats. American Museum Novitates 2778: 1-48.
• Leuconoe moluccarum Thomas, O. 1915. Two new species of Leuconoe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 170-172 [170] [recorded from Australia by Thomas, op. cit. p. 171].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 10.3.1.29 ♂ skin & skull, Ara, Kai (as Kei) Kepulauan, Indonesia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cooper, S.J.B., Day, P.R., Reardon, T. & Schulz, M. 2000. Assessment of species boundaries in Australian Myotis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) using mitochondrial DNA. Journal of Mammalogy 82: 328-338

Generic Combinations

• Myotis australis (Dobson, 1878).
• Myotis macropus (Gould, 1855).
• Myotis moluccarum (Thomas, 1915).

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Myotis (Leuconoe) adversus (Horsfield, 1824). —
  Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988] [137]
• Myotis (Selysius) australis (Dobson, 1878). —
  Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988] [138]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal

General References

Cooper, S.J.B., Day, P.R., Reardon, T. & Schulz, M. 2000. Assessment of species boundaries in Australian Myotis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) using mitochondrial DNA. Journal of Mammalogy 82: 328-338

Dwyer, P.D. 1970. Foraging behaviour of the Australian large-footed Myotis (Chiroptera). Mammalia 34: 76-80

Dwyer, P.D. 1970. Social organization in the bat Myotis adversus. Science (Washington, D.C.) 168: 1006-1008

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Southern Myotis)

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. [111] (Large-footed Myotis)

History of changes

• Pipistrellus Kaup, J. 1829. Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte und Natürliches System der Europäischen Thierwelt. Leipzig : C.W. Leske xii 204 pp. [98, 188].

  Type species:

   Vespertilio pipistrellus Schreber, 1774 by monotypy (as Vespertilio pipistrellus).
• Vesperugo Keyserling, A.G. von & Blasius, I.H. 1839. Uebersicht der Gattungs-und Artcharaktere der europäischen Fledermäuse. Arch. Naturv. Christiania 5(Erster Bd): 293-331 [312] [the taxon Vesperugo Keyserling & Blasius is discussed by Miller (1897: 383–384)].

  Type species:

   Vespertilio pipistrellus Schreber, 1774 by subsequent designation, see Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988] (as V. pipistrellus Daub.).

  Secondary source:

   Miller, G.S. 1897. The nomenclature of some European bats. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 20: 379-385.
• Nannugo Kolenati, F.A. 1856. Europa's Chiroptern. Allgemeine Deutsche Naturhistorischen Zeitung ns 2: 121-132, 161-192 [131, 169] [originally made available as a subgenus of Vesperugo Keyserling & Blasius, 1839); recorded from Australia by Trouessart, E.-L. 1878. Catalogue des mammifères vivants et fossiles. Rev. Mag. Zool. 3 6: 201–254 [241]].

  Type species:

   Vespertilio pipistrellus Schreber, 1774 by subsequent designation, see Mahoney, J.A. in Walton, D.W. (ed.) 1988. Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [Date published 13/Apr/1988] (as Vesperugo (Nannugo) pipistrellus Daubenton).

  Secondary source:

   Trouessart, E.-L. 1878. Catalogue des mammifères vivants et fossiles. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée. Paris 3 6: 201-254.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Miller, G.S. 1897. Revision of the North American bats of the family Vespertilionidae. North American Fauna 13: 1-135 pls 1-3 [87]
• Hickman, G.C. 1981. National mammal guides: a review of references to Recent faunas. Mammal Review 11: 53-85 (see for references to extralimital synonymy)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

N America, Canary Ils, Europe, Africa, Asia, SE Asian islands, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago.

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Pine Creek (PCK) ; NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Arnhem (CA), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Solomon Islands

Nearctic Region

Oriental Region

• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

Distribution References

General References

Miller, G.S. 1897. The nomenclature of some European bats. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 20: 379-385 [383-384]

Nowak, R.M. & Paradiso, J.L. 1983. Walker's Mammals of the World. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press Vol. 1.

History of changes

• Pipistrellus adamsi Kitchener, D.J., Caputi, N. & Jones, B. 1986. Revision of Australo-Papuan Pipistrellus and Falsistrellus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 12: 435-495 [463].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM 5022 adult ♂ (in spirit) skull removed, 40 km E Archer River Crossing, Cape York, QLD [13°27'S 143°18'E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, nocturnal, predator, volant.

General References

Adams, M., Baverstock, P.R., Watts, C.H.S. & Reardon, T. 1987. Electrophoretic resolution of species boundaries in Australian Microchiroptera. II. The Pipistrellus group (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 40: 163-170

Hill. J.E. & Harrison, D.L. 1987. The baculum in the Vespertilionidae (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) with a systematic review, a synopsis of Pipistrellus and Eptesicus, and the description of a new genus and subgenus. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 52: 225-305

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Cape York Pipistrelle)

History of changes

• Pipistrellus murrayi Andrews, C.W. 1900. Mammals. pp. 22-37 in Andrews, C.W. (ed.). A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): physical features and geology; with descriptions of the fauna and flora by numerous contributors. London : British Museum (Natural History) xiii 337 pp. [22].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Christmas Island.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Considered extinct, possibly vagrant to Cocos-Keeling Islands

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, crepuscular, nocturnal, volant.

General References

Andrews, C.W. 1900. Mammals. pp. 22-37 in Andrews, C.W. (ed.). A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): physical features and geology; with descriptions of the fauna and flora by numerous contributors. London : British Museum (Natural History) xiii 337 pp.

James, D.J. & Retallick, K. 2007. Research into the Conservation Status and Threats of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle Pipistrellus murrayi, 2004-2006. Parks Australia North Christmas Island Biodiversity Monitoring Programme: Report to Department of Finance & Administration and Department of Environment & Water Resources, Canberra.

Kitchener, D.J., Caputi, N. & Jones, B. 1986. Revision of Australo-Papuan Pipistrellus and Falsistrellus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 12: 435-495 (supports specific status of P. murrayi cf Koopman (loc. cit.))

Koopman, K.F. 1984. Taxonomic and distributional notes on tropical Australian bats. American Museum Novitates 2778: 1-48 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement considers P. murrayi a synonym of P. tenuis)

Lumsden, L., Silins, J. & Schulz, M. 1999. Population dynamics and ecology of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle, Pipistrellus murrayi, on Christmas Island. Report to Parks Australia North, Christmas Island.

Tidemann, C.R. 1985. A study of the staus, habitat requirements and management of the two species of baton Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service (unpublished report). 80 pp.

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Christmas Island Pipistrelle)

History of changes

• Pipistrellus tenuis westralis Koopman, K.F. 1984. Taxonomic and distributional notes on tropical Australian bats. American Museum Novitates 2778: 1-48 [13].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM M22474 ♂ skin (wet) & skull (formerly AMNH 216135), Cape Bossut, WA [ca 18°40'S 121°30'E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Arnhem (CA), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Coastal, gregarious, mangrove, nocturnal, predator.

General References

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

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

Hill, J.E. 1983. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Indo-Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 45: 103-208

Hill. J.E. & Harrison, D.L. 1987. The baculum in the Vespertilionidae (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) with a systematic review, a synopsis of Pipistrellus and Eptesicus, and the description of a new genus and subgenus. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 52: 225-305

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.

Hoye, G.A. 1995. Cape York Pipistrelle Pipistrellus adamsi. pp. 524-525 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Kitchener, D.J., Caputi, N. & Jones, B. 1986. Revision of Australo-Papuan Pipistrellus and Falsistrellus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 12: 435-495

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

McKean, J.L. & Price, W.J. 1978. Pipistrellus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in northern Australia with some remarks on its systematics. Mammalia 42: 343-347

McKenzie, N.L. 1995. Northern Pipistrelle Pipistrellus westralis. pp. 525-526 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Smith, J.D. & Hood, C.S. 1981. Preliminary notes on bats from the Bismarck Archipelago (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Science in New Guinea 8: 81-121

Tate, G.H.H. 1942. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 47 Review of the vespertilionine bats, with special attention to genera and species of the Archbold collections. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 80: 221-297

Vestjens, W.J.M. & Hall, L.S. 1977. Stomach contents of forty-two species of bats from the Australasian region. Australian Wildlife Research 4: 25-35

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Northern Pipistrelle)

History of changes

• Scoteanax Troughton, E. le G. 1944. Furred Animals of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xxviii 374 pp. 25 pls. [publication date established from letter from Mr. R. Walsh, Angus & Robertson Publishers to J.A. Mahoney dated 7 June 1984] [353].

  Type species:

   Nycticejus rueppellii Peters, 1866 by original designation (as Nycticejus rüppellii Peters, 1866).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Baverstock, P.R., Adams, M., Reardon, T. & Watts, C.H.S. 1987. Electrophoretic resolution of species boundaries in Australian Microchiroptera. III. The Nycticeiini — Scotorepens and Scoteanax (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 40: 413-433

History of changes

• Nycticejus rueppellii Peters, W. 1866. Über einige neue oder weniger bekannte Flederthiere. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1866: 16-25 [21] [as Nycticejus rüppellii].

  Type data:

   Holotype SMF 4284 skin (skull not extracted), 'Sydney in Westaustralien'.

Generic Combinations

• Scoteanax rueppellii (Peters, 1866).
• Nycticeius rueppellii (Peters, 1866).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Carnivorous, closed forest, open forest, predator, subtropical, volant, woodland.

General References

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

Hoye, G.A. & Richards, G.C. 1995. Greater Broad-nosed Bat Scoteanax rueppellii. pp. 527-528 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

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

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

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

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

Vestjens, W.J.M. & Hall, L.S. 1977. Stomach contents of forty-two species of bats from the Australasian region. Australian Wildlife Research 4: 25-35

Woodside, D.P. & Long, A. 1984. Observations on the feeding habits of the greater broad-nosed bat, Nycticeius rueppellii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Australian Mammalogy 7: 121-129

Woodside, D.P. & Long, A. 1984. Observations on the feeding habits of the Greater Broad-nosed Bat, Nycticeus rueppellii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Australian Mammalogy 7: 121-129

Woodside, D.P. & Taylor, K.J. 1985. Echolocation calls of fourteen bats from eastern New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 8: 279-298

Common Name References

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

History of changes

• Scotorepens Troughton, E. le G. 1944. Furred Animals of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xxviii 374 pp. 25 pls. [publication date established from letter from Mr. R. Walsh, Angus & Robertson Publishers to J.A. Mahoney dated 7 June 1984] [354].

  Type species:

   Scoteinus orion Troughton, 1937 by original designation.

Introduction

Van Dyck & Strahan (2008) list an undescribed species in this genus, given as the 'Central-eastern Broad-nosed Bat', from the eastern region of the border between New South Wales and Queensland.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Southern coastal and near-coastal regions of Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), 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), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Coolgardie (COO), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Victorian Midlands (VM), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NT, Qld, WA: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Distribution References

General References

Baverstock, P.R., Adams, M., Reardon, T. & Watts, C.H.S. 1987. Electrophoretic resolution of species boundaries in Australian Microchiroptera. III. The Nycticeiini — Scotorepens and Scoteanax (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 40: 413-433

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 (distribution)

History of changes

• Scoteinus balstoni Thomas, O. 1906. in Anon. On mammals collected in south-west Australia for Mr. W.E. Balston. Abstracts of Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 31: 1-2 [2] [Anon. op. cit. is an abstract of Thomas, op. cit.].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 6.8.1.41 ♀ skin & skull, North Pool, Laverton, WA, 1650 ft.

  Type locality references:

  Thomas, O. 1906. On mammals collected in south-west Australia for Mr. W.E. Balston. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1906: 468-478 [publication date established from Duncan (1937: 76)] [472].
• Scoteinus influatus Thomas, O. 1924. A new Scoteinus from Queensland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 13: 540.

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 24.3.7.4 ♂ skin (wet) & skull, Prairie, central part of southern N QLD, 1400 ft.

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 [111]

Generic Combinations

• Scotorepens balstoni (Thomas, 1906).
• Nycticeius balstoni (Thomas, 1906).
• Nycticeius influatus (Thomas, 1924).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Gregarious, predator, subtropical.

General References

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

Fenton, M.B. 1982. Echolocation calls and patterns of hunting and habitat use of bats (Microchiroptera) from Chillagoe, north Queensland. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 417-425

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. & 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

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. 1982. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 109 Bats from eastern Papua and the east Papuan Islands. American Museum Novitates 2747: 1-34

Lumsden, L.F. & Bennett, A.F. 1995. Bats of a semi-arid environment in south-eastern Australia: Biogeography, ecology and conservation. Wildlife Research 22: 217-240

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

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

Parnaby, H. 1995. Inland Broad-nosed Bat Scotorepens balstoni. pp. 528-529 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Ryan, R.M. 1966. Observations on the Broad-nosed Bat, Scoteinus balstoni, in Victoria. Journal of Zoology, London 148: 162-166 pls 1-3

Vestjens, W.J.M. & Hall, L.S. 1977. Stomach contents of forty-two species of bats from the Australasian region. Australian Wildlife Research 4: 25-35

Volleth, M. & Tidemann, C.R. 1991. The origin of the Australian Vespertilioninae bats, as indicated by chromosomal studies. Zeitschrift fur Säugetierkunde 56: 321-330

Waithman, J. 1979. A report on a collection of mammals from southwest Papua, 1972–1973. The Australian Zoologist 20: 313-326

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. (Inland Broad-nosed Bat)

History of changes

• 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

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)

History of changes

• Scoteinus orion Troughton, E. le G. 1937. Six new bats (Microchiroptera) from the Australasian region. The Australian Zoologist 8: 274-281 [277].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM M6115 ♂ skin & skull, All Saints Church, Hunters Hill, Sydney, NSW.

Generic Combinations

• Scotorepens orion (Troughton, 1937).
• Nycticeius balstoni orion (Troughton, 1937).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, gregarious, predator, subtropical, volant.

General References

Baverstock, P.R., Adams, M., Reardon, T. & Watts, C.H.S. 1987. Electrophoretic resolution of species boundaries in Australian Microchiroptera. III. The Nycticeiini — Scotorepens and Scoteanax (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 40: 413-433

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

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

Tidemann, C.R. 1995. Eastern Broad-nosed Bat Scotorepens orion. pp. 531-532 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Woodside, D.P. & Taylor, K.J. 1985. Echolocation calls of fourteen bats from eastern New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 8: 279-298

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (South-eastern Broad-nosed 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. [111] (Eastern Broad-nosed Bat)

History of changes

• Scoteinus sanborni Troughton, E. le G. 1937. Six new bats (Microchiroptera) from the Australasian region. The Australian Zoologist 8: 274-281 [280] [recorded from Australia by Tate, G.H.H. 1952. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 66 Mammals of Cape York Peninsula with notes on the occurrence of rain forest in Queensland. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 98: 563–616 [599–601]].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM A3176 ♀ skin (wet) & skull, East Cape, Papua New Guinea.

  Secondary source:

   Tate, G.H.H. 1952. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 66 Mammals of Cape York Peninsula with notes on the occurrence of rain forest in Queensland. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 98: 563-616.

Generic Combinations

• Nycticeius sanborni (Troughton, 1937).
• Scotorepens sanborni (Troughton, 1937).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Predator, volant.

General References

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

Hall, L.S. 1995. Northern Broad-nosed Bat Scotorepens sanborni. pp. 533-534 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Kitchener, D.J., Adams, M & Boeadi 1994. Morphological and genetic relationships among populations of Scotorepens sanborni (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Papua New Guinea, Australia and Indonesia. Australian Mammalogy 17: 31-42

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

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

Common Name References

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

History of changes

• Vespadelus Troughton, E. le G. 1944. Furred Animals of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xxviii 374 pp. 25 pls. [publication date established from letter from Mr. R. Walsh, Angus & Robertson Publishers to J.A. Mahoney dated 7 June 1984] [348].

  Type species:

   Scotophilus pumilus Gray, 1841 by monotypy.
• Vespadelus Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 6: i-xii 1-122 [95] [nomen nudum].

  Type species:

   Scotophilus pumilus Gray, 1841 by monotypy.
• Registrellus Troughton, E. le G. 1944. Furred Animals of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xxviii 374 pp. 25 pls. [publication date established from letter from Mr. R. Walsh, Angus & Robertson Publishers to J.A. Mahoney dated 7 June 1984] [349].

  Type species:

   Pipistrellus regulus Thomas, 1906 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hill. J.E. & Harrison, D.L. 1987. The baculum in the Vespertilionidae (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) with a systematic review, a synopsis of Pipistrellus and Eptesicus, and the description of a new genus and subgenus. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 52: 225-305 (transferred species from Eptesicus)
• Volleth, M. & Tidemann, C.R. 1991. The origin of the Australian Vespertilioninae bats, as indicated by chromosomal studies. Zeitschrift fur Säugetierkunde 56: 321-330 (raised Vespadellus from subgenus of Pipistrellus to genus)
• Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [278]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

N & S America, West Indies, Europe, Africa and Asia.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Riverina (RIV) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders (FLI), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: NSW South Western Slopes (NSS) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP) ; NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NT, WA: Daly Basin (DAB), Northern Kimberley (NK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Eptesicus baverstocki Kitchener, D.J., Jones, B. & Caputi, N. 1987. Revision of Australian Eptesicus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 427-500 [481].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM M17812 ♂ adult, Yuinmery area, Western Australian Goldfields [28°28'30''S 119°17'15''E].

Generic Combinations

• Vespadelus baverstocki (Kitchener, Jones & Caputi, 1987).

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

'widely distrubuted in inland arid parts of Australia in grasslands, savannah and shrub communities'.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)

Ecological Descriptors

Gregarious, volant.

General References

Lumsden, L.F. & Bennett, A.F. 1995. Bats of a semi-arid environment in south-eastern Australia: Biogeography, ecology and conservation. Wildlife Research 22: 217-240

Richards, G.C. 1995. Inland Forest Bat Vespadelus baverstocki. pp. 534-535 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. (Inland Forest Bat)

History of changes

• Eptesicus pumilus caurinus Thomas, O. 1914. New Asiatic and Australasian bats and a new bandicoot. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 13: 439-444 [439].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 14.3.9.1.10473 ♂ body (wet) & skull, Drysdale River, Kimberley, WA.

Generic Combinations

• Vespadelus caurinus (Thomas, 1914).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Aerial, carnivorous, woodland.

General References

Kitchener, D.J., Jones, B. & Caputi, N. 1987. Revision of Australian Eptesicus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 427-500

Thomson, B. 1995. Western Cave Bat Vespadelus caurinus. 536 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. (Northern Cave Bat)

History of changes

• Eptesicus darlingtoni Allen, G.M. 1933. Two new bats from Australia. Journal of Mammalogy 14: 149-151 [150].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 29113 ♀ skin & skull, Macpherson Range, Queensland Natl. Park, QLD 3000 ft.
• Eptesicus sagittula McKean, J.L., Richards, G.C. & Price, W.J. 1978. A taxonomic appraisal of Eptesicus (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 26: 529-537 [535].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANWC CM2290 ♂ skin & skull, 13 km NW of Braidwood, NSW [35°21'S 149°44'E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kitchener, D.J., Jones, B. & Caputi, N. 1987. Revision of Australian Eptesicus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 427-500 [462]

Generic Combinations

• Vespadelus darlingtoni (Allen, 1933).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, gregarious, montane, open forest, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Restricted to montane areas above 300m in north of range.

General References

Adams, M., Baverstock, P.R., Tidemann, C.R. & Woodside, D.P. 1982. Large genetic differences between sibling species of bats, Eptesicus from Australia. Heredity 48: 435-438 (as E. saggitula)

Herr, A. & Klomp, N.I. 1999. Preliminary investigation of roosting habitat preference of the large forest bat Vespadelus darlingtoni (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Pacific Conservation Biology 5: 203-213

Hill. J.E. & Harrison, D.L. 1987. The baculum in the Vespertilionidae (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) with a systematic review, a synopsis of Pipistrellus and Eptesicus, and the description of a new genus and subgenus. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 52: 225-305 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement transferred to Pipistrellus (Vespadelus) from Eptesicus)

Hoye, G.A. 1995. Large Forest Bat Vespadelus darlingtoni. pp. 537-538 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

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

Savva, N. & Taylor, R. 1986. Bat remains in a Tasmanian cave. Macroderma 1: 21-22 (as E. saggitula)

Taylor, R.J. & O'Neill, M.G. 1986. Composition of the bat communities in Tasmanian forests. Australian Mammalogy 9: 125-130 (as E. saggitula)

Taylor, R.J. & Savva, N.M. 1988. Use of roost sites by four species of bats in state forest in south-eastern Tasmania. Australian Wildlife Research 15: 637-645 (as E. sagittula)

Tidemann, C.R. 1993. Reproduction in the bats. Vespadelus vulturnus, V. regulus and V. darlingtoni (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in coastal south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 41: 21-35

Tidemann, C.R., Woodside, D.P., Adams, M. & Baverstock, P.R. 1981. Taxonomic separation of Eptesicus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in south-eastern Australia by discriminant analysis and electrophoresis. Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 119-128 (as E. saggitula)

Woodside, D.P. & Taylor, K.J. 1985. Echolocation calls of fourteen bats from eastern New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 8: 279-298 (as E. saggitula)

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Large Forest Bat)

History of changes

• Eptesicus douglasorum Kitchener, D.J. 1976. Eptesicus douglasi, a new vespertilionid bat from Kimberley, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 4: 295-301 [296] [as douglasi, an incorrect original spelling; see ICZN, Art. 32(c) p. 69 for explanation under Examples].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM M3405.003 ♂ body (wet) & skull, Tunnel Creek, Napier Range, WA [17°37'S 125°09'E].

  Secondary source:

   Kitchener, D.J., Jones, B. & Caputi, N. 1987. Revision of Australian Eptesicus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 427-500.

Generic Combinations

• Vespadelus douglasorum (Kitchener, 1976).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK)

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, gregarious, volant.

General References

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

Hill. J.E. & Harrison, D.L. 1987. The baculum in the Vespertilionidae (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) with a systematic review, a synopsis of Pipistrellus and Eptesicus, and the description of a new genus and subgenus. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 52: 225-305 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement transferred to Pipistrellus (Vespadelus) from Eptesicus)

Kitchener, D.J. 1995. Yellow-lipped Bat Vespadelus douglasorum. pp. 538-539 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Kitchener, D.J., Jones, B. & Caputi, N. 1987. Revision of Australian Eptesicus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 427-500

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

McKenzie, N. 1999. Yellow-lipped cave bat. p. 84 in Duncan, A., Baker, G.B. & Montgomery, N. (eds). The Action Plan for Australian Bats. Canberra : Environment Australia.

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Yellow-lipped Cave Bat)

History of changes

• Eptesicus finlaysoni Kitchener, D.J., Jones, B. & Caputi, N. 1987. Revision of Australian Eptesicus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 427-500 [456].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM M22407 ♂body (wet) & skull, Cossack, WA [20°41'S 117°11'E].

Generic Combinations

• Pipistrellus finlaysoni (Kitchener, Jones & Caputi, 1987).
• Vespadelus finlaysoni (Kitchener, Jones & Caputi, 1987).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Ranges (CR), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Aerial, carnivorous, cave dweller, volant.

General References

Maddock, T.H. & McLeod, A.N. 1976. Observations on the Little Brown Bat, Eptesicus pumilus caurinus Thomas, in the Tennant Creek area of the Northern Territory. Part one: Introduction and breeding biology. South Australian Naturalist 50: 42-50

Reardon, T.B. 1995. Finlayson's Cave Bat Vespadelus finlaysoni. pp. 539-540 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. (Finlayson's Cave Bat)

History of changes

• Scotophilus pumilus Gray, J.E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia in Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. pp. 397-414 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841] [398, 400, 406, 413].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 41.1523 skin & skull (anterior part only), Yarrundi, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McKean, J.L., Richards, G.C. & Price, W.J. 1978. A taxonomic appraisal of Eptesicus (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 26: 529-537 [533-534]

Generic Combinations

• Vespadelus pumilus (J.E. Gray, 1841).
• Eptesicus pumilus (J.E. Gray, 1841).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Gregarious, subtropical, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Roosts include mines, tunnels and buildings.

General References

Fenton, M.B. 1982. Echolocation calls and patterns of hunting and habitat use of bats (Microchiroptera) from Chillagoe, north Queensland. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 417-425

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

Hill. J.E. & Harrison, D.L. 1987. The baculum in the Vespertilionidae (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) with a systematic review, a synopsis of Pipistrellus and Eptesicus, and the description of a new genus and subgenus. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 52: 225-305 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement transferred to Pipistrellus (Vespadelus) from Eptesicus)

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

Kitchener, D.J., Jones, B. & Caputi, N. 1987. Revision of Australian Eptesicus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 427-500

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

Law, B. & Anderson, J. 2000. Roost preferences and foraging ranges of the eastern forest bat Vespadelus pumilus under two disturbance histories in northern New South Wales, Australia. Austral Ecology 25: 352-367

Maddock, T.H. & McLeod, A.N. 1976. Observations on the Little Brown Bat, Eptesicus pumilus caurinus Thomas, in the Tennant Creek area of the Northern Territory. Part one: Introduction and breeding biology. South Australian Naturalist 50: 42-50

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. 1983. Eastern Forest Bat Vespadelus pumilus. pp. 541-542 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

Tidemann, C.R. 1993. Reproduction in the bats. Vespadelus vulturnus, V. regulus and V. darlingtoni (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in coastal south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 41: 21-35

Turbill, C., Law, B. & Geiserm F. 2003. Summer torpor in a free-ranging bat from subtropical Australia. Journal of Thermal Biology 28: 223-226

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Eastern Forest Bat)

History of changes

• Pipistrellus regulus Thomas, O. 1906. On mammals collected in south-west Australia for Mr. W.E. Balston. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1906: 468-478 [publication date established from Duncan (1937: 76)] [470].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 6.8.1.18 skull and probably BMNH 6.8.1.6 ♂ skin (specimen BMNH 6.8.1.6 is Vespertilio pumilus Gray specimen 2 of Thomas, loc. cit.), ?King River, King George Sound, WA near sea-level.

Generic Combinations

• Vespadelus regulus (Thomas, 1906).
• Eptesicus regulus (Thomas, 1906).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Aerial, gregarious, predator, volant, woodland.

General References

Adams, M., Baverstock, P.R., Tidemann, C.R. & Woodside, D.P. 1982. Large genetic differences between sibling species of bats, Eptesicus from Australia. Heredity 48: 435-438

Hill, J.E. 1966. The status of Pipistrellus regulus Thomas (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Mammalia 30: 302-307

Hill. J.E. & Harrison, D.L. 1987. The baculum in the Vespertilionidae (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) with a systematic review, a synopsis of Pipistrellus and Eptesicus, and the description of a new genus and subgenus. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 52: 225-305 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement transferred to Pipistrellus (Vespadelus) from Eptesicus)

Hosken, D.J., Blackberry, M.A., Stewart, T.B. & Stucki, A.F. 1998. The male reproductive cycle of three species of Australian vespertilionid bat. Journal of Zoology, London 245: 261-270

Kitchener, D.J., Jones, B. & Caputi, N. 1987. Revision of Australian Eptesicus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 427-500

Kitchener, D.J. & Halse, S.A. 1978. Reproduction in female Eptesicus regulus (Thomas) (Vespertilionidae), in South-western Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 26: 257-267

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

Law, B.S., Reinhold, L. & Pennay, M. 2002. Geographic variation in the echolocation calls of Vespadelus spp. (Vespertilionidae) from New South Wales and Queensland, Australia. Acta Chiropterologica 4: 201-215

Lumsden, L.F. & Bennett, A.F. 1995. Bats of a semi-arid environment in south-eastern Australia: Biogeography, ecology and conservation. Wildlife Research 22: 217-240

McKean, J.L., Richards, G.C. & Price, W.J. 1978. A taxonomic appraisal of Eptesicus (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 26: 529-537

Savva, N. & Taylor, R. 1986. Bat remains in a Tasmanian cave. Macroderma 1: 21-22

Taylor, R.J. & O'Neill, M.G. 1986. Composition of the bat communities in Tasmanian forests. Australian Mammalogy 9: 125-130

Taylor, R.J. & Savva, N.M. 1988. Use of roost sites by four species of bats in state forest in south-eastern Tasmania. Australian Wildlife Research 15: 637-645

Tidemann, C.R. 1993. Reproduction in the bats. Vespadelus vulturnus, V. regulus and V. darlingtoni (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in coastal south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 41: 21-35

Tidemann, C.R. 1995. Southern Forest Bat Vespadelus regulus. pp. 543-544 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Tidemann, C.R., Woodside, D.P., Adams, M. & Baverstock, P.R. 1981. Taxonomic separation of Eptesicus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in south-eastern Australia by discriminant analysis and electrophoresis. Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 119-128

Woodside, D.P. & Taylor, K.J. 1985. Echolocation calls of fourteen bats from eastern New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 8: 279-298

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Southern Forest Bat)

History of changes

• Eptesicus troughtoni Kitchener, D.J., Jones, B. & Caputi, N. 1987. Revision of Australian Eptesicus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 427-500 [467].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM JM5412 ♂ adult, Yarramulla Lava Tunnels, Mt Surprise, Qld [18°13'30''S 144°40'30''E].

Generic Combinations

• Vespadelus troughtoni (Kitchener, Jones & Caputi, 1987).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, gregarious, volant, woodland.

General References

Law, B., Chidel, M. & Mong, A. 2005. Life under a sandstone overhang: the ecology of the eastern cave bat Vespadelus troughtoni in northern New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 27: 137-145

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

Parnaby, H. 1995. Eastern Cave Bat Vespadelus troughtoni. 545 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Schulz, M. 1998. Bats and other fauna in disused Fairy Martin Hirundo ariel nests. The Emu 98: 184-191

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Eastern Cave Bat)

History of changes

• Eptesicus pumilus vulturnus Thomas, O. 1914. New Asiatic and Australasian bats and a new bandicoot. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 13: 439-444 [440].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 7.1.1.375 ♀ skin & skull, TAS.
• Vespertilio pygmaeus Becker, L. in Anon. 1858. A small Australian bat. The Argus [Melbourne], No. 3785, July 29th, 1858 p. 5 col. 5. [5] [junior homonym of Vespertilio pygmaeus Leach, 1825; Anon., op. cit. is an abstract of Becker, L. 1859. On an Australian bat. No. 1. Trans. Philos. Inst. Vict. 3: 38–40, pl.1].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Oakleigh, near Dandenong, VIC.

  Secondary source:

   Becker, L. 1859. On an Australian bat. No. 1. Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria 3: 38-40, pl.1.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McKean, J.L., Richards, G.C. & Price, W.J. 1978. A taxonomic appraisal of Eptesicus (Chiroptera: Mammalia) in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 26: 529-537 [534]

Generic Combinations

• Vespadelus vulturnus (Thomas, 1914).
• Pipistrellus vulturnus (Thomas, 1914).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Predator, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Solitary or social, roosts include old buildings, hibernates.

General References

Adams, M., Baverstock, P.R., Tidemann, C.R. & Woodside, D.P. 1982. Large genetic differences between sibling species of bats, Eptesicus from Australia. Heredity 48: 435-438

Campbell, S., Lumsden, L.F., Kirkwood, R. & Coulson, G. 2005. Day roost selection by female little forest bats (Vespadelus vulturnus) within remnant woodland on Phillip Island, Victoria. Wildlife Research 32: 183-191

Green, R.H. 1965. Observations on the Little Brown Bat Eptesicus pumilus Gray in Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston ns 20: 1-16

Hill. J.E. & Harrison, D.L. 1987. The baculum in the Vespertilionidae (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) with a systematic review, a synopsis of Pipistrellus and Eptesicus, and the description of a new genus and subgenus. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 52: 225-305 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement transferred to Pipistrellus (Vespadelus) from Eptesicus)

Kitchener, D.J., Jones, B. & Caputi, N. 1987. Revision of Australian Eptesicus (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 13: 427-500

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

Law, B.S., Reinhold, L. & Pennay, M. 2002. Geographic variation in the echolocation calls of Vespadelus spp. (Vespertilionidae) from New South Wales and Queensland, Australia. Acta Chiropterologica 4: 201-215

Lumsden, L.F. & Bennett, A.F. 1995. Bats of a semi-arid environment in south-eastern Australia: Biogeography, ecology and conservation. Wildlife Research 22: 217-240

Taylor, R.J. & O'Neill, M.G. 1986. Composition of the bat communities in Tasmanian forests. Australian Mammalogy 9: 125-130

Thompson, B.G. 1982. Records of Eptesicus vulturnus (Thomas) (Vespertilionidae: Chiroptera) from the Alice Springs area, Northern Territory. Australian Mammalogy 5: 69-70

Tidemann, C.R. 1982. Sex differences in seasonal changes of brown adipose tissue and activity of the Australian vespertilionid bat Eptesicus vulturnus. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 15-22

Tidemann, C.R. 1993. Reproduction in the bats. Vespadelus vulturnus, V. regulus and V. darlingtoni (Microchiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in coastal south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 41: 21-35

Tidemann, C.R. 1995. Little Forest Bat Vespadelus vulturnus. pp. 546-547 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Tidemann, C.R., Woodside, D.P., Adams, M. & Baverstock, P.R. 1981. Taxonomic separation of Eptesicus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in south-eastern Australia by discriminant analysis and electrophoresis. Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 119-128

Woodside, D.P. & Taylor, K.J. 1985. Echolocation calls of fourteen bats from eastern New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 8: 279-298

Young, R.A. & Ford, G.I. 1998. Range extension of the little forest bat Vespadelus vulturnus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) into a semi-arid area of central Queensland. The Australian Zoologist 30: 392-397

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Little Forest Bat)

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