list of Australian bats

Spectacled Flying-fox (Pteropus conspicillatus)

This is a list of Australian bats. There are 75 bat species known to occur in Australia, Lord Howe and Christmas Island.

Chiroptera

Pteropodidae

• Bare-backed Fruit-bat, Dobsonia moluccense magna - Far North Queensland; the species range also includes New Guinea
• Northern Blossom-bat, Macroglossus minimus - Northern Australia and South-east Asia
• Common Blossom-bat, Syconycteris australis - coastal eastern Australia; New Guinea and Indonesia
• Torresian Tubenosed Bat, Nyctimene cephalotes - Moa Island in Torres Strait; New Guinea and Indonesia
• Eastern Tubenosed Bat, Nyctimene robinsoni - Endemic to Australia, found on east coast
• Black Flying-fox, Pteropus alecto - Northern Australia; New Guinea and Indonesia
• Spectacled Flying-fox, Pteropus conspicillatus - Coastal Queensland; New Guinea and Indonesia
• Large-eared Flying-fox, Pteropus macrotis - Boigu Island in the Torres Strait and New Guinea
• Christmas Island Flying Fox, Pteropus melanotus - Christmas Island; the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Nias and Enggano Islands off Indonesia
• Grey-headed Flying-fox, Pteropus poliocephalus - Endemic species found on the east coast from Rockhampton to western Victoria
• Little Red Flying-fox, Pteropus scapulatus - Wide distribution in northern and eastern Australia; also known from New Guinea

Megadermatidae

• Ghost Bat, Macroderma gigas - Endemic; found across northern Australia

Rhinolophidae

• Eastern Horseshoe Bat, Rhinolophus megaphyllus - East coast and New Guinea
• Greater Horseshoe Bat, Rhinolophus philippinensis achilles - Far north Queensland and eastern Indonesia
• Large-eared Horseshoe Bat, Rhinolophus philippinensis maros - North east Queensland; New Guinea, Indonesia and the Philippines.
• Dusky Leafnosed Bat, Hipposideros ater - Northern Australia; South East Asia to India
• Fawn Leafnosed Bat, Hipposideros cervinus - Far north Queensland; South East Asia
• Diadem Leafnosed Bat, Hipposideros diadema reginae - Northern Queensland and South East Asia
  • Arnhem Leafnosed Bat, Hipposideros diadema inornatus - Top End of the Northern Territory; South East Asia
• Semon's Leafnosed Bat, Hipposideros semoni - North Queensland and New Guinea
• Northern Leafnosed Bat, Hipposideros stenotis - Endemic; the Kimberleys, the Top End and north-western Queensland
• Orange Leafnosed Bat, Rhinonicteris aurantia - from the Pilbara to north-western Queensland

Emballonuridae

• Yellow-bellied Sheathtail Bat, Saccolaimus flaviventris - Endemic species with a wide distribution in tropical Australia
• Cape York Sheathtail-bat, Saccolaimus mixtus - Cape York Peninsula and in New Guinea
• Bare-rumped Sheathtail Bat, Saccolaimus saccolaimus - Northern Australia; South East Asia to India
• Coastal Sheathtail Bat, Taphozous australis - East coast of Queensland and the Torres Stait; recorded a few times in New Guinea
• Common Sheathtail Bat, Taphozous georgianus - Endemic species found across northern Australia
• Hill's Sheathtail Bat, Taphozous hilli - Endemic; central inland Australia
• Arnhem Sheathtail Bat, Taphozous kapalgensis - Endemic; found only in Kakadu
• Troughton's Sheathtail Bat, Taphozous troughtoni - Endemic; found only around Mt Isa

Molossidae

• Northern Freetail Bat, Chaerephon jobensis - Northern Australia; New Guinea and Indonesia
• Beccari's Freetail Bat, Mormopterus beccarii - Widespread across northern Australia; Indonesia
• East-coast Freetail Bat, Mormopterus norfolkensis - Endemic; east coast from Brisbane to ydney.
• Eastern Freetial Bat, Mormopterus sp. - Endemic, east coast
• Inland Freetail Bat, Mormopterus sp. - Endemic, South-west Australia
• Little Northern Freetail Bat, Mormopterus sp. - Northern Australia and New Guinea
• Little Western Freetail Bat, Mormopterus sp. - Endemic, west coast
• Southern Freetail Bat, Mormopterus sp. - Endemic, south-eastern Australia
• Western Freetail Bat, Mormopterus sp. - Endemic, south-western Australia
• Hairy-nosed Freetail Bat, Mormopterus sp. - Central Australia
• White-striped Freetail Bat, Nyctinomus australis - Endemic; southern Australia except Tamania.

Vespertilionidae

• Large-eared Pied Bat, Chalinolobus dwyeri - Endemic; western side of the Great Diviing Range from south-western Queensland to southern New South Wales.
• Gould's Wattled Bat, Chalinolobus gouldii - Throughout Australia; Tasmania and Norfolk Island
• Chocolate Wattled Bat, Chalinolobus morio - Endemic; southern Australia and Tasmania
• Hoary Wattled Bat, Chalinolobus nigrogriseus - Northern Australia and New Guinea
• Little Pied Bat, Chalinolobus picatus - Endemic; inland Queensland and New South Wales west of the Great Dividing Range
• Western Falsistrelle, Falsistrellus mackenziei - Endemic; south-western Australia
• Eastern Falsistrelle, Falsistrellus tasmaniensis - Endemic; south-western Queensland, New South Wales
• Little Bentwing Bat, Miniopterus australis - East coast; New Guinea and Indonesia
• Large Bentwing Bat, Miniopterus schreibersii - Northern and eastern Australia; wide Pacific distribution
• Flute-nosed Bat, Murina florium - Far North Queensland; New Guinea and eastern Indonesia
• Large-footed Myotis, Myotis adversus - Coastal northern and eastern Australia
• Arnhem Longeared Bat, Nyctophilus arnhemensis - Endemic; the Top End
• Northern Longeared Bat, Nyctophilus bifax - Northern Australia and New Guinea
• Lesser Longeared Bat, Nyctophilus geoffroyi - Endemic; throughout Australia and Tasmania, absent from the east coast of Queensland.
• Gould's Longeared Bat, Nyctophilus gouldii - Endemic; eastern and south-western Australia
• Greater Longeared Bat, Nyctophilus timoriensis - Southern mainland Australia and Tasmania; Indonesia
• Pygmy Longeared Bat, Nyctophilus walkeri - Endemic; the Top End
• Golden-tipped Bat, Phoniscus papuensis - East coast of Australia; New Guinea
• Cape York Pipistrelle, Pipistrellus adamsi - Cape York and the Top End
• Chritmas Island Pipistrelle, Pipistrellus murrayi - Endemic to Chistmas Island
• Northern Pipistrelle, Pipistrellus westralis - Coastal Northern Australia
• Greater Broadnosed Bat, Scoteanax rueppellii - Endemic; coastal Queensland and New South Wales
• Inland Broadnosed Bat, Scotorepends balstoni - Endemic; arid and semi-arid areas
• Little Broadnosed Bat, Scotorepens greyii - Endemic; northern and inland Australia
• Eastern Broadnosed Bat, Scotorepens orion - Endemic; coastal eastern Australia from Brisbane to Melbourne
• Northern Broadnosed Bat, Scotorepens sanborni - Northern Australia; New Guinea and Indonesia
• Inland Forest Bat, Vespadelus baverstocki - Endemic; found across arid Australia
• Northern Cave Bat, Vespadelus caurinus - Northern Australia
• Large Forest Bat, Vespadelus darlingtoni - Endemic; south-eastern coast and Tasmania
• Kimberley Cave Bat, Vespadelus douglasorum - Endemic; west Kimberley region
• Inland Cave Bat, Vespadelus finlaysoni - Endemic; wide distribution across arid and semi-arid Australia
• Eastern Forest Bat, Vespadelus pumilus - Endemic; scattered distribution on east coast, Lord Howe Island.
• Southern Forest Bat, Vespadelus regulus - Endemic; southern mainland and Tasmania
• Eastern Cave Bat, Vespadelus troughtoni - Endemic; eastern Australia
• Little Forest Bat, Vespadelus vulturnus - Endemic; south east and Tasmania

See also

• List of Australian mammals
  • List of Australian monotremes and marsupials
  • List of Australian rodents
  • List of Australian introduced placental mammals
  • List of Australian marine mammals

References

• Churchill, S. 1998. Australian Bats. Clare Coney ISBN 1-876334-07-X
• O’Brien, G.M., 1993, 'Seasonal Reproduction in Flying Foxes, Reviewed in the Context of other Tropical Mammals’, Reproduction fertility and development , Vol. 5, pp. 499-521.
• Bats of Australia

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