New Guinea free-tailed bat
| New Guinea free-tailed bat | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ McKean, J. L.; Calaby, J. H. (1968). "A new genus and two new species of bats from New Guinea". Mammalia (32): 372–378.
- ↑ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (2005). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801882214.