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Raffray's sheath-tailed bat

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Raffray's sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura raffrayana) is a small bat of the family Emballonuridae, the sac-winged and sheath-tailed bats, found in eastern Indonesia including Western New Guinea, in Papua New Guinea and in the Solomon Islands. George Edward Dobson described it in 1879 from a specimen first reported from Gilolo Island; Oldfield Thomas later corrected the type locality to Numfor Island in Geelvink Bay, Western New Guinea. The Mammal Diversity Database places it in the Australasian realm and records its IUCN Red List status as Least Concern. The English Wikipedia article is a short stub, so the diet, roosts, habits and population trend of the species are not yet written up in the sources read and remain to be documented.

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Classification
Living or Extinct
Yes 1
Conservation Status
Least Concern 1
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Child Taxon Of

Emballonuridae, Taxa
Source Mammal Diversity Database: Emballonura raffrayana - Mammal Diversity Database
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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Emballonura raffrayana - Mammal Diversity DatabaseCountry distribution, Indonesia
Quote, Country distribution, Indonesia
Country distribution Indonesia · Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands

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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Emballonura raffrayana - Mammal Diversity DatabaseCountry distribution, Papua New Guinea
Quote, Country distribution, Papua New Guinea
Country distribution Indonesia · Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Source Mammal Diversity Database: Emballonura raffrayana - Mammal Diversity DatabaseCountry distribution, Solomon Islands
Quote, Country distribution, Solomon Islands
Country distribution Indonesia · Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands
Sources
1. Mammal Diversity Database: Emballonura raffrayana - Mammal Diversity Database
Mammal Diversity Database
  • IUCN Red List status
    IUCN Red List status Least Concern
  • Species status
    Species status Living
  • Child Taxon Of: Emballonuridae, Taxonomy
    Family: Emballonuridae
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Raffray's sheath-tailed bat (Wikipedia)
In Group: Bats (Chiroptera), Lead
Quote, In Group: Bats (Chiroptera), Lead
is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae.
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