Indonesian tomb bat

The Indonesian tomb bat (Taphozous achates) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae that is found only in Indonesia. The British mammalogist Oldfield Thomas described it as a new species in 1915 from a holotype that the British naturalist Alfred Hart Everett had collected on the Indonesian island of Savu in 1896. The species name achates honours the character Achates in the Latin epic poem The Aeneid, and Thomas often took names from mythology and the classics when naming new mammal species. In many features it resembles the black-bearded tomb bat, but it can be told apart by its conspicuously larger skull. Individuals have a forearm length of about 62 millimetres.