Species profile—Macroderma gigas (ghost bat)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Megadermatidae (false vampires) → Macroderma gigas (ghost bat)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Megadermatidae (false vampires)
- Scientific name
- Macroderma gigas (Dobson, 1880)
- Common name
- ghost bat
- Type reference
- Dobson, G.E. (1880) On some new or rare species of Chiroptera in the collection of the Gottingen Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1880: 461-465.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 994
- Synonym(s)
- Megaderma gigas
- Alternate name(s)
- false vampire
Australian false vampire bat
false vampire bat - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Endangered
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC) status
- Vulnerable
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- Critical
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Map
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Other resources
Species Profile and Threats Database (SPRAT) 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=994
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
