Papuan sheath-tailed bat

The Papuan sheath-tailed bat (Saccolaimus mixtus) is a poorly known bat of the family Emballonuridae that occurs on the Cape York Peninsula of Australia and in New Guinea, and hunts in open forest for night-flying insects. Ellis Le Geyt Troughton described it in 1925 from a male holotype and two other specimens bought from Kendal Broadbent, who obtained them at Port Moresby in 1878; its name mixtus is Latin for intermediate or mixed, and a revision of the genus in 1991 replaced the older combination Taphozous mixtus. Other common names include Troughton's pouched bat, Cape York sheath-tailed bat and New Guinea sheathtail bat. It has dark hoary grey fur, pale buff-grey underneath, a forearm of 62 to 68 mm, a head and body of 72 to 77 mm and a weight of about 24 g, with a wing pouch lined with whitish hairs and a throat pouch that is prominent in males. Few specimens are known, only two from New Guinea collected before 1973 and about 25 from Australia, and the Mammal Diversity Database lists the species as Near Threatened.