Ozimops cobourgianus

(D. H. Johnson, 1959)

Northern Coastal Free-tailed Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Vespertilionoidea
Family : Molossidae
Subfamily : Molossinae
Genus : Ozimops

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Johnson, D.H. 1959-11-04. Four new mammals from the Northern Territory of Australia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 72:183-188.

Original name as described

Tadarida loriae cobourgiana

Other common names

Mangrove Free-tailed Bat · Northwestern Freetail Bat · Western Little Free-tailed Bat

Type material

USNM:MAMM:284243

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Black Rock Point (on north shore of Van Diemen Gulf, 15 miles [= 24 km] southeast of Cape Don lighthouse), Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory, Australia (lat. 11° 26' S, long. 131° 56' E)."

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Australia

Taxonomy notes

split from O. loriae; moved from Mormopterus to Ozimops

Taxonomy notes citation

Reardon, T. B., McKenzie, N. L., Cooper, S. J. B., Appleton, B., Carthew, S., & Adams, M. (2014). A molecular and morphological investigation of species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships in Australian free-tailed bats Mormopterus (Chiroptera: Molossidae). Australian journal of zoology, 62(2), 109-136. · Jackson, S. M., & Groves, C. (2015). Taxonomy of Australian mammals. CSIRO Publishing, Austalia, Clayton.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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