Species Miniopterus australis (Tomes, 1858)
Little Bentwing-bat
Distribution
IBRA
NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Queensland: NE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Caves, closed forest, gregarious, open forest, predator, subtropical.
General References
Baker, J.R. & Bird, T.F. 1936. The seasons in a tropical rainforest (New Hebrides).—Part 4. Insectivorous bats (Vespertilionidae and Rhinolophidae). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 40: 143-161 pl. 4
Dwyer, P.D. 1965. Flight patterns of some eastern Australian bats. Victorian Naturalist 82: 36-41
Dwyer, P.D. 1968. The biology, origin, and adaptation of Miniopterus australis (Chiroptera) in New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 49-68
Dwyer, P.D. 1995. Little Bentwing-bat Miniopterus australis. pp. 492-493 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
Hall, L.S. & Richards, G. 2003. Flying around underground: cave bats. pp. 111-126 in Finlayson, B. & Hamilton, E. (eds). Beneath the Surface: A Natural History of Australian Caves. Sydney : UNSW Press
Hill, J.E. 1983. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Indo-Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 45: 103-208
Jones, G. & Corben, C. 1993. Echolocation calls from six species of microchiropteran bats in south-eastern Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 16: 35-38
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
Maeda, K. 1982. Studies on the classification of Miniopterus in Eurasia, Australia and Melanesia. Honyurui Kagaku suppl. 1: 1–176
Maeda, K. 1984. Geographic and sexual variations of the external and skull characters in bats of the Miniopterus australis group. Journal of the Mammal Society of Japan 10: 9-33
McKean, J.L. & Hamilton-Smith, E. 1967. Litter size and maternity sites in Australian bats (Chiroptera). Victorian Naturalist 84: 203-206
Medway, Lord 1971. Observations of social and reproductive biology of the bent winged Bat Miniopterus australis in Northern Borneo. Journal of Zoology, London 165: 261-273 1 pl
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
Richardson, E.G. 1977. The biology and evolution of the reproductive cycle of Miniopterus schreibersii and M. australis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Journal of Zoology, London 183: 353-375
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
Sun, X. & Marshall, S.A. 2003. Systematics of Phasia Latreille (Diptera: Tachinidae). Zootaxa 276: 1-320
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
Common Name References
ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study (Little Bentwing-bat)