Species Chaerephon jobensis (Miller, 1902)
Northern Freetail-bat, Northern Mastiff Bat
Distribution
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Australian Region
- Australia
- Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
- Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, W plateau
Ecological Descriptors
Gregarious, predator, tree hole.
Extra Ecological Information
Roosts also in caves and buildings.
Notes
Details for nominate subspecies, not found in Australia:
Chaerephon jobensis jobensis (Miller, 1902)
Nyctinomus jobensis Miller, G.S. 1902. Two new tropical old world bats. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 15: 245–246 [246].
Type data:Holotype USNM 18545 & 38035 ♀ skin (wet, 18545) & skull (38035), Ansus, Japen Pulau (as Jobie Island), Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
General References
Anon. 1929. A bat colony. The Australian Zoologist 6: 106-107
Begg, R.J. & McKean, J.L. 1982. Cave dwelling in the molossid bat Tadarida jobensis colonicus. Northern Territory Naturalist 5: 12
De Lestang, A. 1929. A bat colony (Chaerophon plicatus colonicus) in North Queensland. The Australian Zoologist 6: 106-107
Freeman, P.W. 1981. A multivariate study of the family Molossidae (Mammalia, Chiroptera): morphology, ecology, evolution. Fieldiana Zoology ns 7: i-viii 1-173
Friend, G.R. & Braithwaite, R.W. 1986. Bat fauna of Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory. Australian Mammalogy 9: 43-52
Hill, J.E. 1961. Indo-Australian bats of the genus Tadarida. Mammalia 25: 29-56
Honacki, J.H., Kinman, K.E. & Koeppl, J.W. (eds) 1982. Mammal Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic reference. Lawrence, Kansas : Allen Press & Assoc. Syst. Coll. ix 694 pp.
Koopman, K.F. 1984. Taxonomic and distributional notes on tropical Australian bats. American Museum Novitates 2778: 1-48
Richards, G.C. 1995. Northern Freetail-bat Chaerephon jobensis. pp. 479-480 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Reed New Holland : Angus & Robertson 756 pp.
Vestjens, W.J.M. & Hall, L.S. 1977. Stomach contents of forty-two species of bats from the Australasian region. Australian Wildlife Research 4: 25-35
Waithman, J. 1979. A report on a collection of mammals from southwest Papua, 1972–1973. The Australian Zoologist 20: 313-326
Ziegler, A.C. 1982. An ecological check-list of New Guinea Recent mammals. pp. 863-894 in Gressitt, J.L. (ed.). Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea. The Hague & London : W. Junk Vol. 2(4) vii 983 pp.
Common Name References
ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study (Northern Freetail-bat, Northern Mastiff Bat)