Paremballonura atrata

(W. C. H. Peters, 1875)

Peters's 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 : Paremballonura

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Peters, W.C.H. 1875. Über eine neue Gattung und zwei neue Arten von Säugethieren aus Madagascar. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1874:690-694.

Original name as described

Emballonura atrata

Type material

ZMB 4692

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

‘‘aus dem Innern von Madagascar [= interior of Madagascar]."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Madagascar

Taxonomy notes

moved from Emballonura to Paremballonura

Taxonomy notes citation

Goodman, S.M., Puechmaille, S.J., Friedli-Weyeneth, N., Gerlach, J., Ruedi, M., Schoeman, M.C., Stanley, W.T., Teeling, E.C. 2012. Phylogeny of Emballonurini (Emballonuridae) with descriptions of a new genus and species from Madagascar. Journal of Mammalogy 93(6): 1440-1455.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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