The eastern cave bat or Troughton's forest bat (''Vespadelus troughtoni'') is a species of
vesper bat
Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats. The vespertilionid family is the most diverse and widely distributed of bat familie ...
in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found only in Australia, where it lives in caves along the east coast and in adjacent inland ranges.
[Ellis, M. (2001). Extension to the known range of the Eastern Cave Bat ''Vespadelus troughtoni'' (Kitchener, Jones and Caputi 1987) into the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion in New South Wales. Australian Bat Society Newsletter. 16:39.]
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Bats of Australia
Vespadelus
Mammals of New South Wales
Mammals of Queensland
Mammals described in 1987
Taxa named by Darrell Kitchener
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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