Species profile—Mormopterus ridei (eastern free-tailed bat)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Molossidae (freetail-bats) → Mormopterus ridei (eastern free-tailed bat)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Molossidae (freetail-bats)
- Scientific name
- Mormopterus ridei (Felten, 1964)
- Common name
- eastern free-tailed bat
- Type reference
- Felten, H. (1964). Zur Taxonomie indo-australischer Fledermäuse der Gattung Tadarida (Mammalia, Chiroptera). Senckenbergiana Biologica 45, 1-13.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 22061
- Synonym(s)
- Mormopterus loriae ridei
Ozimops ridei
Mormopterus sp. 2
Mormopterus species 1.
Tadarida loriae ridei
Mormopterus planiceps ridei - Alternate name(s)
- eastern freetail-bat
Ride's free-tailed bat
eastern freetail bat
east coast mastiff bat - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=22061.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
