Species Scotorepens orion (Troughton, 1937)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scoteinus orion Troughton, E. le G. 1937. Six new bats (Microchiroptera) from the Australasian region. The Australian Zoologist 8: 274-281 [277].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM M6115 ♂ skin & skull, All Saints Church, Hunters Hill, Sydney, NSW.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, gregarious, predator, subtropical, volant.

General References

Baverstock, P.R., Adams, M., Reardon, T. & Watts, C.H.S. 1987. Electrophoretic resolution of species boundaries in Australian Microchiroptera. III. The Nycticeiini — Scotorepens and Scoteanax (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 40: 413-433

Kitchener, D.J. & Caputi, N. 1985. Systematic revision of Australian Scoteanax and Scotorepens (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), with remarks on relationships to other Nycticeiini. Records of the Western Australian Museum 12: 85-146

Koopman, K.F. 1978. The genus Nycticeius (Vespertilionidae), with special reference to tropical Australia. pp. 165-171 in Olembo, R.J., Castelino, J.B. & Mutere, F.A. (eds). Proceedings of the 4th International Bat Research Conference. Nairobi : Kenya Literature Bureau

Koopman, K.F. 1984. Taxonomic and distributional notes on tropical Australian bats. American Museum Novitates 2778: 1-48

McKean, J.L. 1966. Some new distributional records of Broad-nosed Bats (Nycticeius spp.). Victorian Naturalist 83: 25-30

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

Tidemann, C.R. 1995. Eastern Broad-nosed Bat Scotorepens orion. pp. 531-532 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Woodside, D.P. & Taylor, K.J. 1985. Echolocation calls of fourteen bats from eastern New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 8: 279-298

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study (South-eastern Broad-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. [111] (Eastern Broad-nosed Bat)