Species profile—Nyctimene cephalotes (Torresian tube-nosed bat)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Pteropodidae (Flying Foxes, Fruit Bats and Blossom-bats) → Nyctimene cephalotes (Torresian tube-nosed bat)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Pteropodidae (Flying Foxes, Fruit Bats and Blossom-bats)
- Scientific name
- Nyctimene cephalotes Geoffroy, 1810
- Common name
- Torresian tube-nosed bat
- Type reference
- Geoffroy, E. (1810). Description des roussettes et des cephalotes, deux nouveaux genres de la familledes chauve-souris. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 15:86-108.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 983
- Synonym(s)
- Nyctimene bougainville
Nyctimene vizcaccia
Nyctimene cephalotes vizcaccia - Alternate name(s)
- Torresian tubenosed 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=983.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
