Species Murina florium Thomas, 1908

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• Murina florium Thomas, O. 1908. New bats and rodents in the British Museum collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 2: 370-375 [371].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 63.12.26.14 skin & skull, Flores Pulau (as Flores), Indonesia.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, coprophagous, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Rare.

General References

Clague, C.I., Coles, R.B., Whybird, O.J., Spencer, H.J. & Flemons, P. 1999. The occurrence and distribution of the tube-nosed insectivorous bat (Murina florium) in Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 121: 175-191

Hill, J.E. 1983. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Indo-Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 45: 103-208

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

Kutt, A.S. & Schulz, M. 2000. Distribution and habitat of the flute-nosed bat Murina florium (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in the wet tropics of north-eastern Queensland. The Australian Zoologist 31: 458-467

Richards, G.C., Coles, R.B. & Spencer, H. J. 1995. Tube-nosed Insect Bat Murina florium. pp. 496-497 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Richards, G.C., Hall, L.H., Helman, P.M. & Churchill, S.K. 1982. First discovery of a species of the rare Tube-nosed Insectivorous Bat (Murina) in Australia. Australian Mammalogy 5: 149-151

Schulz, M & Hannah, D. 1998. Relative abundance, diet and roost selection in the tube-nosed insect bat, Murina florium, on the Atherton Tablelands, Australia. Wildlife Research 25: 261-272

Van Deusen, H.M. 1961. New Guinea record of the Tube-nosed Insectivorous Bat, Murina. Journal of Mammalogy 42: 531-533

Winter, J. 1991. Mammals. pp. 43-54 in Nix, H.A. & Switzer, M.A. (eds). Rainforest Animals: Atlas of vertebrates endemic to Australia's wet tropics. Canberra : Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service 111 pp. [Kowari]

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 (Tube-nosed Insectivorous Bat)

Clayton, M., Wombey, J.C., Mason, I.J., Chesser, R.T. & Wells, A. 2006. CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing iv 162 pp. [110] (Tube-nosed Bat)