Species profile—Austronomus australis (white-striped freetail bat)
Classification
Animalia ( https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/?kingdom=animals ) (animals) → Mammalia ( https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/?kingdom=animals&class=mammalia ) (mammals) → Molossidae ( https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/?kingdom=animals&class=mammalia&family=molossidae ) (freetail-bats) → Austronomus australis (white-striped freetail bat)
Sighting data
- Download
- KML ( https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getsurveysbyspecies&taxonid=989&f=kml ) | CSV ( https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getsurveysbyspecies&taxonid=989&f=csv ) | GeoJson ( https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getsurveysbyspecies&taxonid=989 )
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia ( https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/?kingdom=animals&class=mammalia ) (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia ( https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/?kingdom=animals&class=mammalia ) (mammals)
- Family
- Molossidae ( https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/?kingdom=animals&class=mammalia&family=molossidae ) (freetail-bats)
- Scientific name
- Austronomus australis (Gray, 1838)
- Common name
- white-striped freetail bat
- Type reference
- Gray, J.E.(1838) A revision of the genera of bats(Vespertilionidae), and the description of some new genera and species. Mag.Zool.Bot.2:483-505.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 989
- Synonym(s)
- Tadarida australis
Molossus australis
Nyctinomus albidus
Nyctinomus australis - Alternate name(s)
- white-striped bat
white-striped free-tailed bat
white-striped mastiff-bat
white-striped scurrying bat - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Terrestrial
Other resources
- Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) ( https://ozcam.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?taxa=Austronomus%20australis#tab_mapView )
- Atlas of Living Australia ( https://bie.ala.org.au/search?q=AUSTRONOMUS%2BAUSTRALIS )
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API ( https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/qld-wildlife-data-api ) using the Get species by ID function ( https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/qld-wildlife-data-api/resource/d050bfcd-ad49-4776-9bdb-7d5fa8f94fe2 ) used under CC-By 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ).
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=989 ( https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=989 ).
This information is sourced from the WildNet platform ( https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/plants-animals/species-information/wildnet ) managed by the Queensland Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation.
