White-striped free-tailed bat

White-striped free-tailed bat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Molossidae
Genus: Tadarida
Species: T. australis
Binomial name
Tadarida australis
(Gray, 1839)

The white-striped free-tailed bat (Tadarida australis) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae. It is found in all states of Australia except Tasmania, migrating to the north in winter.

Some taxonomists classify the species in the genus Austronomus, distinct from all other Tadarida species.[1]

Sources

References

  1. Churchill, S. 2008. Australian Bats. Allen and Unwin, NSW.


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