Species Vespadelus troughtoni (Kitchener, Jones & Caputi, 1987)

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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 and IMCRA regions

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)

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