Common Sheath-tailed Bat

Common Sheath-tailed Bat
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Emballonuridae
Genus:	Taphozous
Species:	T. georgianus
Binomial name
*Taphozous georgianus* Thomas, 1915

Sharp-nosed Tomb Bat range

The Common Sheath-tailed Bat^[1] or Sharp-nosed Tomb Bat, Taphozous georgianus, is a species of sheath-tailed bat in the family Emballonuridae, found only in Australia.

References

^ Van Dyke, S. and Strahan, R. (eds.) (2008) The Mammals of Australia, Third Edition, New Holland / Queensland Museum, Brisbane ISBN 9781877069253

Chiroptera Specialist Group 1996. Taphozous georgianus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
Simmons, Nancy B. (16 November 2005). "Order Chiroptera (pp. 312-529)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13800933.

Extant species of family Emballonuridae

Kingdom: Animalia · Phylum: Chordata · Class: Mammalia · Infraclass: Eutheria · Superorder: Laurasiatheria · Order: Chiroptera

Balantiopteryx	Ecuadorian Sac-Winged Bat (B. infusca) · Thomas's Sac-Winged Bat (B. io) · Gray Sac-winged Bat (B. plicata)

Centronycteris	Thomas's Shaggy Bat (C. centralis) · Shaggy Bat (C. maximiliani)

Coleura	African Sheath-tailed Bat (C. afra) · Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat (C. seychellensis)

Cormura	Chestnut Sac-winged Bat (C. brevirostris)

Cyttarops	Short-eared Bat (C. alecto)

Diclidurus (Ghost bats)	Northern Ghost Bat (D. albus) · Greater Ghost Bat (D. ingens) · Isabelle's Ghost Bat (D. isabellus) · Lesser Ghost Bat (D. scutatus)

Emballonura	Small Asian Sheath-tailed Bat (E. alecto) · Peters's Sheath-tailed Bat (E. atrata) · Beccari's Sheath-tailed Bat (E. beccarii) · Large-eared Sheath-tailed Bat (E. dianae) · Greater Sheath-tailed Bat (E. furax) · Lesser Sheath-tailed Bat (E. monticola) · Raffray's Sheath-tailed Bat (E. raffrayana) · Pacific Sheath-tailed Bat (E. semicaudata) · Seri's Sheath-tailed Bat (E. serii) · Western Sheath-tailed Bat (E. tiavato)

Mosia	Dark Sheath-tailed Bat (M. nigrescens)

Peropteryx	Greater Dog-like Bat (P. kappleri) · White-winged Dog-like Bat (P. leucoptera) · Lesser Dog-like Bat (P. macrotis) · Pale-winged Dog-like Bat (P. pallidoptera) · Trinidad Dog-like Bat (P. trinitatis)

Rhynchonycteris	Proboscis Bat (R. naso)

Saccolaimus	Yellow-bellied Pouched Bat (S. flaviventris) · Troughton's Pouched Bat (S. mixtus) · Pel's Pouched Bat (S. peli) · Naked-rumped Pouched Bat (S. saccolaimus)

Saccopteryx	Antioquian Sac-winged Bat (S. antioquensis) · Greater Sac-winged Bat (S. bilineata) · Frosted Sac-winged Bat (S. canescens) · Amazonian Sac-winged Bat (S. gymnura) · Lesser Sac-winged Bat (S. leptura)

Taphozous	Indonesian Tomb Bat (T. achates) · Coastal Tomb Bat (T. australis) · Sharp-nosed Tomb Bat (T. georgianus) · Hamilton's Tomb Bat (T. hamiltoni) · Hildegarde's Tomb Bat (T. hildegardeae) · Hill's Tomb Bat (T. hilli) · Arnham Tomb Bat (T. kapalgensis) · Long-winged Tomb Bat (T. longimanus) · Mauritian Tomb Bat (T. mauritianus) · Black-bearded Tomb Bat (T. melanopogon) · Naked-rumped Tomb Bat (T. nudiventris) · Egyptian Tomb Bat (T. perforatus) · Theobald's Tomb Bat (T. theobaldi) · Troughton's Sheath-tailed Bat (T. troughtoni)