New Guinea free-tailed bat

The New Guinea free-tailed bat (Austronomus 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 A. kuboriensis as a subspecies of the nearby A. australis (1982, 1994), the reference catalogue Mammal Species of the World suggests that recent analysis establishes these as distinct species.[2]

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

See also

References

  1. Bonaccorso, F. & Reardon, T. (2008). "Austronomus kuboriensis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2008: e.T136201A4259029. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T136201A4259029.en.
  2. Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (2005). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801882214.


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