The New Guinea free-tailed bat (''Austronomus kuboriensis''), sometimes designated the New Guinea mastiff bat, is a species of
free-tailed bat
The Molossidae, or free-tailed bats, are a family of bats within the order Chiroptera.
The Molossidae is the fourth-largest family of bats, containing about 110 species as of 2012. They are generally quite robust, and consist of many strong-flyi ...
that inhabits the
Chimbu highlands of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
. Although Koopman described ''A. kuboriensis'' as a subspecies of the nearby ''
A. australis'', the 2005 reference catalogue ''
Mammal Species of the World
''Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference'' is a standard reference work in mammalogy giving descriptions and bibliographic data for the known species of mammals. It is now in its third edition, published in late 2005, ...
'' suggested that analysis had established these as distinct species.
See also
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List of mammals of Papua New Guinea
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Papua New Guinea. There are 244 mammal species in Papua New Guinea, of which seven are critically endangered, twelve are endangered and forty are vulnerable.This list is derived from the IUCN Red Lis ...
References
Austronomus
Mammals described in 1968
Mammals of Papua New Guinea
Bats of Oceania
Endemic fauna of Papua New Guinea
Bats of New Guinea
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