Seri's sheath-tailed bat (''Emballonura serii'') is a species of

sac-winged bat Emballonuridae is a family (biology), family of microbats, many of which are referred to as sac-winged or sheath-tailed bats. They are widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions around the world. The earliest fossil records are from ...

in the family Emballonuridae. It is found in the

Bismarck Archipelago The Bismarck Archipelago (, ) is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and is part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. Its area is about . History The first inhabitants of the archipela ...

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

and Yapen Island in Indonesia. Its roosts in caves.

References

Emballonura Bats of Oceania Bats of Indonesia Mammals of Papua New Guinea Mammals of Western New Guinea Bismarck Archipelago Yapen Islands Least concern biota of Asia Least concern biota of Oceania Mammals described in 1994 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Bats of New Guinea {{Emballonuridae-stub