Species Chalinolobus gouldii (J.E. Gray, 1841)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scotophilus gouldii Gray, J.E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia in Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. pp. 397-414 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841] [398-400, 405-406, 412-413].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 41.1516 skin & skull, Launceston, TAS.
• Chalinolobus gouldii venatoris Thomas, O. 1908. New bats and rodents in the British Museum collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 2: 370-375 [372] [as Chalinolobus gouldi venatoris].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 6.3.9.4 ♀ skin & skull, Alexandria, NT.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 6: i-xii 1-122 [97]
• Chruszcz, B. & Barclay, R.M.R. 2002. Chalinolobus gouldii. Mammalian Species 690: 1-4 (recognition of subspecies not justified)
• van Dyck, S. & Strahan, R. 2008. The Mammals of Australia. Sydney : Reed New Holland 887 pp. [534] (subspecies no longer recognised)

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Kangaroo Is., Norfolk Is., range does not extend onto Cape York.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, gregarious, open forest, predator, subtropical, tall shrubland, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Insectivorous, roosts in diverse places, experiences torpor in cooler part of range.

 

General References

Chruszcz, B. & Barclay, R.M.R. 2002. Chalinolobus gouldii. Mammalian Species 690: 1-4

Dixon, J.M. 1995. Gould's Wattled Bat Chalinolobus gouldii. pp. 512-513 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Dixon, J.M. & Huxley, L. 1989. Observations on a maternity colony of Gould's wattled bat Chalinolobus gouldii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionida). Mammalia 53: 395-414

Friend, G.R. & Braithwaite, R.W. 1986. Bat fauna of Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory. Australian Mammalogy 9: 43-52

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.

Jones, G. & Corben, C. 1993. Echolocation calls from six species of microchiropteran bats in south-eastern Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 16: 35-38

Kitchener, D.J. 1975. Reproduction in female Gould's Wattled Bat, Chalinolobus gouldii (Gray) (Vespertilionidae), in Western Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 23: 29-42

Koopman, K.F. 1971. Taxonomic notes on Chalinolobus and Glauconycteris (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). American Museum Novitates 2451: 1-10

Koopman, K.F. 1984. Taxonomic and distributional notes on tropical Australian bats. American Museum Novitates 2778: 1-48

Kulzer, E., Nelson, J.E., McKean, J.L. & Möhres, F.P. 1970. Untersuchungen über die Temperaturregulation australischer Fledermäuse (Microchiroptera). Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Physiologie 69: 426-451

Lumsden, L.F. & Andrews, C.K. 1989. Observations of an assisted parturition of a Gould's wattled-bat, Chalinolobus gouldii. Macroderma 4: 66-69

Lumsden, L.F. & Bennett, A.F. 1995. Bats of a semi-arid environment in south-eastern Australia: Biogeography, ecology and conservation. Wildlife Research 22: 217-240

Lumsden, L.F., Bennettt, A.F. & Silins, J.E. 2002. Selection of roost sites by the lesser long-eared bat (Nyctophilus geoffroyi) and Gould’s wattled bar (Chalinolobus gouldii) in south-eastern Australia. Journal of Zoology (London) 257: 207-218

McKean, J.L. & Hamilton-Smith, E. 1967. Litter size and maternity sites in Australian bats (Chiroptera). Victorian Naturalist 84: 203-206

Oliveira, M.C. de 1998. Towards standardized descriptions of the echolocation calls of microchiropteran bats: pulse design terminology for seventeen species from Queensland. The Australian Zoologist 30: 405-411

Stephan, H. & Nelson, J.E. 1981. Brains of Australian Chiroptera 1. Encephalization and macromorphology. Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 653-670

Stephan, H., Nelson, J.E. & Frahm, H.D. 1981. Brain size comparison in Chiroptera. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 19: 195-222

Taylor, R.J. & O'Neill, M.G. 1986. Composition of the bat communities in Tasmanian forests. Australian Mammalogy 9: 125-130

Tidemann, C.R. 1986. Morphological variation in Australian and island populations of Gould's wattled bat, Chalinolobus gouldii (Gray) (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 34: 503-514

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

Woodside, D.P. & Taylor, K.J. 1985. Echolocation calls of fourteen bats from eastern New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 8: 279-298

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study (Gould's Wattled Bat)