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Species Vespadelus pumilus (J.E. Gray, 1841)

Eastern Forest Bat

Generic Combinations

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

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
22-Nov-2010 22-Nov-2010 MOVED
04-Dec-2018 18-Nov-2010 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)