Species Nyctimene robinsoni Thomas, 1904

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nyctymene robinsoni Thomas, O. 1904. New bats and rodents from West Africa, the Malay Peninsula, and Papuasia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 14: 196-202 [196].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 3.8.3.1 ♂ skin & skull, Cooktown, QLD.
• Nyctimene tryoni Longman, H.A. 1921. A new Nyctimene from south Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 179-181 pl. 12 [179].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM J3436 ♂ skin wet & skull, Canungra, QLD.

 

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 [91-92]

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Coastal, frugivore, mellivore, subtropical.

Extra Ecological Information

Probably solitary.

 

General References

Birt, P., Hall, L.S. & Smith, G.C. 1997. Ecomorphology of the tongues of Australian Megachiroptera (Chiroptera: Pteropidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 45: 369-384

Donnellan, S.C., Reardon, T.B. & Flannery, T.F. 1995. Electophoretic resolution of species boundaries in tube-nosed bats (Chiroptera: Pteropidae) in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Australian Mammalogy 18: 61-70

Felten, H. 1958. Gespenstfledermaus und Röhrennasen-Flughund. Natur und Volk 88: 361-369

Hall, L.S. & Pettigrew, J. 1995. The bat with the stereo nose. Australian Natural History 24(12): 26-28

Hall, L.S., Richards, G.C. & Spencer, H.J. 1995. Eastern Tube-nosed Bat Nyctimene robinsoni. pp. 426-428 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

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

Mickleburgh, S.P., Hutson, A.M. & Racey, P.A. (Compilers) 1992. Old World Fruit Bats: An action plan for their conservation. Gland : IUCN 252 pp.

Richards, G. 1986. Notes on the natural history of the Queensland tube-nosed bat, Nyctimene robinsoni. Macroderma 2: 64-67

Schulz, M. 1997. Notes on the eastern tube-nosed bat, Nyctimene robinsoni, from the Richmond Range, north-eastern New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 20: 127-130

Spencer, H.J. & Fleming, T.H. 1989. Roosting and foraging behaviour of the Queensland tube-nosed bat, Nyctimene robinsoni (Pteropidae): preliminary radiotracking observations. Australian Wildlife Research 16: 413-420

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

Storch, G. 1968. Funktionsmorphologische Untersuchungen an der Kaumuskulatur und an korrelierten Schädelstrukturen der Chiropteren. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 517: 1-92

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study (Queensland Tube-nosed 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. [108] (Eastern Tube-nosed Bat)