New Guinea free-tailed bat

The New Guinea free-tailed bat, Austronomus kuboriensis, is a species of free-tailed bat in the family Molossidae that inhabits the Chimbu highlands of Papua New Guinea. It is sometimes called the New Guinea mastiff bat. McKean and Calaby described it in 1968 from the Minj-Nona Divide in the Kubor Range, under the name Tadarida kuboriensis, in a paper that named a new genus and two new species of bats from New Guinea. Koopman later treated it as a subspecies of the nearby Austronomus australis, but the 2005 reference catalogue Mammal Species of the World suggested that analysis had established the two as distinct species. The Mammal Diversity Database now lists it as a living species in the genus Austronomus, to which it was moved from Tadarida, records its distribution in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, and gives its IUCN Red List status as Least Concern.