Austronomus
Sign in to saveAustronomus, known as Australasian free-tailed bats, is a molossid genus of microchiropterans. The two recognised species are the white-striped Austronomus australis, found in a wide distribution range across Australia, and the New Guinea species Austronomus kuboriensis.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- Family
- Molossidae
- Collections
- ANWC
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Molossidae
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- taxon name
- Austronomus
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon author citation
- Troughton, 1941
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Austronomus, known as Australasian free-tailed bats, is a molossid genus of microchiropterans. The two recognised species are the white-striped Austronomus australis, found in a wide distribution range across Australia, and the New Guinea species Austronomus kuboriensis.
The genus name was first proposed by Tom Iredale and Ellis Troughton in 1934, but this lacked a formal description until Troughton included one in his Furred animals of Australia (1944). The type species of the genus is Molossus australis Gray, 1838.
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