New Guinea free-tailed bat

New Guinea free-tailed bat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Molossidae
Genus: Tadarida
Species: T. kuboriensis
Binomial name
Tadarida kuboriensis
(McKean and Calaby, 1968)[2]

The New Guinea free-tailed bat (Tadarida kuboriensis), sometimes designated the New Guinea mastiff bat, is an extant species of free-tailed bat that inhabits the Chimbu highlands of Papua New Guinea. Although Koopman describes T. kuboriensis as a subspecies of the nearby T. australis (1982, 1994), the reference catalogue Mammal Species of the World suggests that recent analysis establishes these as distinct species.[3]

References

  1. Bonaccorso, F. & Reardon, T. (2008). "Tadarida kuboriensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  2. McKean, J. L.; Calaby, J. H. (1968). "A new genus and two new species of bats from New Guinea". Mammalia 32: 372–378. doi:10.1515/mamm.1968.32.3.372.
  3. Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (2005). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801882214.

See also

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