Peters's sheath-tailed bat

Peters's sheath-tailed bat
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Emballonuridae
Genus:	Emballonura
Species:	E. atrata
Binomial name
*Emballonura atrata* Peters, 1874

Peters's sheath-tailed bat range

Peters's sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura atrata) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. It is found only in Madagascar. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

Chiroptera Specialist Group 1996. Emballonura atrata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.

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 sheath-tailed 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)