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This is the list of bats of Australia, [1] [2] [3] a sub-list of the list of mammals of Australia.About 81 bat species are known to occur in Australia, Lord Howe and Christmas Island. [4]
The first description of the species was provided by Wilhelm Peters in 1867, [2] using a specimen that G. R. Waterhouse had proved to John Gould. [12] The yellow-bellied sheath-tailed bat belongs to the suborder Microchiroptera, or insectivorous microbats, and is the largest Australian member of the family Emballonuridae. [6]
Gould's long-eared bat (Nyctophilus gouldi) is a microbat found in southern regions of Australia. It occurs in eastern Australia , from Queensland to Victoria, and in a smaller isolated range in the south-west of Western Australia .
Common bent-wing bat (Miniopterus schreibersii ). Miniopteridae is one of the twenty families of bats in the mammalian order Chiroptera and part of the microbat suborder. A member of this family is called a miniopterid, a bent-winged bat, or long winged bat.
In 2000, the common bent-wing bat of Australia was revised into three subspecies, including the southern bent-wing bat. [3] However, it is now recognized as a subspecies of the Australasian bent-wing bat (Miniopterus orianae). [1]
The white-striped free-tailed bat is robust in build [6] and the largest of the eleven Australian Molossids.The colour of the pelage is a deep chocolate brown, with well defined white stripes beneath the wing; occasional patches of white may appear at the upper ventral side.
Microbats constitute the suborder Microchiroptera within the order Chiroptera ().Bats have long been differentiated into Megachiroptera (megabats) and Microchiroptera, based on their size, the use of echolocation by the Microchiroptera and other features; molecular evidence suggests a somewhat different subdivision, as the microbats have been shown to be a paraphyletic group.
A species of Vespadelus, of the diverse and common micro-bats, bats assigned as either suborder Yangochiroptera or Microchiroptera. The description for the species was published by Oldfield Thomas in 1906. [2] The holotype, of indeterminate sex, was collected at King River, Western Australia at sea level. [2]