Greater sheath-tailed bat

The greater sheath-tailed bat, also called the New Guinea sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura furax), is a small bat of the family Emballonuridae that is endemic to New Guinea and some nearby islands. The Mammal Diversity Database records it from Indonesia and Papua New Guinea and credits its description to Oldfield Thomas in 1911, from a specimen taken at Whitewater Camp on the Kapare River south of the Charles Louis Range in West Papua. Adults weigh about 10 to 14 g, and the head and body of measured specimens is 55 to 61 mm long. Like other members of its genus it belongs to the sac-winged or sheath-tailed bats, whose tails are partly enclosed by the flight membrane between the legs. The Mammal Diversity Database lists its IUCN Red List status as Least Concern.