Species profile—Mormopterus norfolkensis (east coast freetail bat)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Molossidae (freetail-bats) → Mormopterus norfolkensis (east coast freetail bat)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Molossidae (freetail-bats)
- Scientific name
- Mormopterus norfolkensis (Gray, 1839)
- Common name
- east coast freetail bat
- Type reference
- Gray, J.E. (1839) Descriptions of some Mammalia discovered in Cuba by W.S.MacLeay, Esq. With some account of their habits, extracted from Mr.MacLeay's notes. Ann. Nat. Hist.4:1-7
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1000
- Synonym(s)
- Tadarida norfolkensis
Nyctinomus norfolkensis
Micronomus norfolkensis
Molossus norfolkensis - Alternate name(s)
- eastern little mastiff-bat
eastern coastal free-tailed bat
eastern freetail-bat
east-coast freetail bat
eastern micronomus
eastern wrinkle-lipped bat
Norfolk Island freetail-bat
Norfolk Island scurrying bat
Norfolk Island mastiff-bat - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1000
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
