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
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=983
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
