Taphozous troughtoni

Tate, 1952

Troughton's Sheath-tailed Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Emballonuroidea
Family : Emballonuridae
Subfamily : Taphozoinae
Genus : Taphozous
Subgenus : Taphozous

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Tate, G.H.H. 1952-03-25. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 66. Mammals of the Cape York Peninsula with notes on the occurrence of rainforest in Queensland. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 98(7):563-616.

Authority publication link

https://hdl.handle.net/2246/1834

Original name as described

Taphozous troughtoni

Other common names

Troughton's Tomb Bat

Type material

AMNH M-162708

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/amnh/mammals?id=urn-catalog-amnh-mammals-m-162708

Type locality

"Rifle Creek, Mt. Isa, northwest Queensland," Australia.

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Australia

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004830

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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.

Taphozous troughtoni

Tate, 1952

Family

Emballonuridae

Root name

troughtoni

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

AMNH M-162708

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/amnh/mammals?id=urn-catalog-amnh-mammals-m-162708

Authority page

607

Authority publication

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Koopman (1994:42) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
  2. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  3. Jackson & Groves (2015:256) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34474)
  4. Jackson & Groves (2015:256) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34474)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #21466) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #21466) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  7. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:355) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004830) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  9. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/21466/209539933) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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