Sulawesi free-tailed bat

The Sulawesi free-tailed bat (Mops sarasinorum) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae, the free-tailed bats. It is found in Indonesia and the Philippines, in Southeast Asia, and has been recorded at elevations of up to about 1,000 metres above sea level. Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer described it as a new species in 1899 and placed it in the now-defunct genus Nyctinomus. Its species name honours Paul and Fritz Sarasin, a pair of Swiss cousins who conducted a research expedition on Sulawesi. It is a small bat, with a forearm about 40 millimetres long and a weight of roughly 19.7 grams, and its fur varies in colour among individuals from blackish brown to blackish chestnut to chestnut-brown. As of 2016 the International Union for Conservation of Nature evaluated it as Data Deficient.