Greater naked bat

The greater naked bat, Cheiromeles torquatus, is a species of free-tailed bat in the family Molossidae, placed in the genus Cheiromeles within the subfamily Molossinae. It was described by Thomas Horsfield in 1824 in his Zoological Researches in Java and the Neighbouring Islands, and its type locality is Penang, Malaysia, where the holotype was collected. The Mammal Diversity Database lists it as a living species found in the wild and places its range in the Indomalayan realm, across Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. It is listed in the third edition of Mammal Species of the World (2005) and is assessed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.