Murina florium

O. Thomas, 1908

Flores Tube-nosed Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Vespertilionoidea
Family : Vespertilionidae
Subfamily : Murininae
Genus : Murina

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1908-10-01. New bats and rodents in the British Museum collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)2(10):370-375.

Original name as described

Murina florium

Other common names

Flute-nosed Bat · Tube-nosed Insectivorous Bat

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1863.12.26.14

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Flores," Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya · Australasia

Country distribution

Indonesia · Papua New Guinea · Australia

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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