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
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Map
- View Map
Other resources
- Species Profile and Threats Database (SPRAT)
- Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM)
- Atlas of Living Australia
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=994.
This information is sourced from the WildNet platform managed by the Queensland Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation.
