Species Saccolaimus saccolaimus (Temminck, 1838)
Bare-rumped Sheathtail-bat, Naked-rumped Sheathtail-bat
Introduction
This species is currently (2009) of conservation concern, however, Milne et al. (2009) found many misidentifications among museum specimens and recommend "… genetic testing of all museum specimens of Australian Saccolaimus to clarify species’ distributions and provide data for reassessing the conservation status for both S. saccolaimus and S. flaviventris.
Distribution
Extra Distribution Information
Cape York south to Townsville and northern Arnhem Land
IBRA
NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Caves, closed forest, coastal, gregarious, predator, treeholes, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Roosts also include a variety of man-made structures.
General References
Chimimba, C.T. & Kitchener, D.J. 1991. A systematic revision of Australian Emballonuridae (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Records of the Western Australian Museum 15: 203-265
Compton, A. & Johnson, P.M. 1983. Observations of the sheath-tailed bat, Taphozous saccolaimus Temminck (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae), in the Townsville region of Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 6: 83-87
Compton, A. & Johnson, P.M. 1983. Observations of the sheath-tailed bat, Taphozous saccolaimus Temminck (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae), in the Townsville region of Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 6: 83-87
Friend, G.R. & Braithwaite, R.W. 1986. Bat fauna of Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory. Australian Mammalogy 9: 43-52
Goodwin, R.E. 1979. The bats of Timor: systematics and ecology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 163: 73-122
Hall, L.S. 1995. Bare-rumped Sheathtail-bat Saccolaimus saccolaimus. pp. 469-470 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
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
McKean, J.L. & Hamilton-Smith, E. 1967. Litter size and maternity sites in Australian bats (Chiroptera). Victorian Naturalist 84: 203-206
McKean, J.L., Friend, G.R. & Hertog, A.L. 1981. Occurrence of the sheath-tailed bat, Taphozous saccolaimus in the Northern Territory. Northern Territory Naturalist 1: 20
Milne, D.J., Jackling, F.C., Sidhu, M. & Appleton, B.R. 2009. Shedding new light on old species identifications: morphological and genetic evidence suggest a need for conservation status review of the critically endangered bat, Saccolaimus saccolaimus. Wildlife Research 36(6): 496-508
Stephan, H., Nelson, J.E. & Frahm, H.D. 1981. Brain size comparison in Chiroptera. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 19: 195-222
Common Name References
ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study (Bare-rumped Sheathtail-bat, Naked-rumped Sheathtail-bat)