Seri's sheath-tailed bat

Seri's sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura serii) is a small cave-roosting bat of the family Emballonuridae found in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea and on Yapen Island in Indonesia. Tim Flannery described it in 1995 in a systematic revision of two close relatives, the greater sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura furax) and the large-eared sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura dianae), that named it as a new species. Its holotype, AM M.19845, was collected in Matapara Cave near Medina on New Ireland. The Mammal Diversity Database lists it as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List and places it in the Australasian biogeographic realm. The sources read give little beyond its distribution and its habit of roosting in caves, so its diet and population trend remain to be documented.