Emballonura furax

O. Thomas, 1911

New Guinea Sheath-tailed Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Emballonuroidea
Family : Emballonuridae
Subfamily : Emballonurinae
Tribe : Emballonurini
Genus : Emballonura

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1911-04-01. Three new mammals from Dutch New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)7(40):384-387.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15815100

Original name as described

Emballonura furax

Other common names

Greater Sheath-tailed Bat · New Guinean Sheath-tailed Bat

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1911.11.11.12

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/79c19f4c-ebd7-4810-adb3-4d07135483b4

Type locality

Whitewater Camp, Kapare River, south of Charles Louis Range, West Papua Province, Indonesia.

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Indonesia · Papua New Guinea

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004805

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Emballonura furax

O. Thomas, 1911

Family

Emballonuridae

Root name

furax

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1911.11.11.12

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/79c19f4c-ebd7-4810-adb3-4d07135483b4

Authority page

384

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15815100

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:44) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:129, 130) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #7667) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #7667) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  6. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:360) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004805) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  8. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/7667/209536771) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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