Peters's sheath-tailed bat (Paremballonura atrata) is a small bat of the family Emballonuridae that is found only in Madagascar. Wilhelm Peters described it in 1875 as Emballonura atrata, from a specimen recorded as coming from the interior of Madagascar. In 2012 a new genus of bat, Paremballonura, was described, and Peters's sheath-tailed bat and the western sheath-tailed bat (Paremballonura tiavato) were transferred into it from Emballonura. The Mammal Diversity Database places the species in the Afrotropical realm and lists its IUCN Red List status as Least Concern. The English Wikipedia article about the bat is a short stub, so details of its diet, roosts, habits and population trend are not yet written up in the sources read and remain to be documented.
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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Paremballonura atrata - Mammal Diversity Database
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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Paremballonura atrata - Mammal Diversity DatabaseCountry distribution, MadagascarQuote, Country distribution, Madagascar
Country distribution Madagascar
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1. Mammal Diversity Database: Paremballonura atrata - Mammal Diversity Database
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IUCN Red List status Least Concern
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Species status Living
Child Taxon Of: Emballonuridae, Taxonomy
Family: Emballonuridae
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is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae.
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