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Species Nyctophilus bifax Thomas, 1915

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Species Nyctophilus bifax Thomas, 1915

Eastern Long-eared Bat

  • Nyctophilus bifax Thomas, O. 1915. Notes on the genus Nyctophilus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 493-499 [496].
    Type data:
     Holotype BMNH 15.3.13.3 ♂ skin (wet) & skull, Herberton district, QLD.

 

Distribution

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
    • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
    • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, gregarious, subtropical, volant, woodland.

 

General References

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

Koopman, K.F. 1982. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 109 Bats from eastern Papua and the east Papuan Islands. American Museum Novitates 2747: 1-34

Koopman, K.F. 1984. Taxonomic and distributional notes on tropical Australian bats. American Museum Novitates 2778: 1-48 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement considers N. bifax a synonym of N. gouldi)

Lunney, D., Barker, J., Leary, T. et al. 1995. Roost selection by the north Queensland long-eared bat Nyctophilus bifax in littoral rainforest in the Iluka World Heritage Area, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Ecology 20: 532-537

Parnaby, H.E. 1987. Distribution and taxonomy of Nyctophilus gouldi Tomes, 1858 and Nyctophilus bifax Thomas, 1915 in eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 109: 153-174

Parnaby, H.E. 1995. Eastern Long-eared Bat Nyctophilus bifax. pp. 500-501 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia. The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study (Eastern Long-eared Bat)