The Somali sheath-tailed bat, listed by the Mammal Diversity Database as the Arabian sheath-tailed bat (Coleura gallarum), is a bat of the family Emballonuridae, the sac-winged and sheath-tailed bats, in the subfamily Emballonurinae. Oldfield Thomas described it in 1915. The Mammal Diversity Database records it from Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Oman, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, which places it across the Horn of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula, and assigns it to both the Afrotropical and Palearctic biogeographic realms. It is one of the four species of the genus Coleura, which also holds the African sheath-tailed bat, the Madagascar sheath-tailed bat and the Seychelles sheath-tailed bat. The database lists its IUCN Red List status as Not Evaluated. It has no English Wikipedia article of its own, so little else about its diet, roosts, habits and population trend is written up in the sources read, and those facts remain to be documented.
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Source Coleura gallarum (Mammal Diversity Database)
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Source Coleura gallarum (Mammal Diversity Database)Country distribution, DjiboutiQuote, Country distribution, Djibouti
Country distribution Djibouti · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Oman · Somalia · Sudan · Yemen
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Source Coleura gallarum (Mammal Diversity Database)Country distribution, EritreaQuote, Country distribution, Eritrea
Country distribution Djibouti · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Oman · Somalia · Sudan · Yemen
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Source Coleura gallarum (Mammal Diversity Database)Country distribution, EthiopiaQuote, Country distribution, Ethiopia
Country distribution Djibouti · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Oman · Somalia · Sudan · Yemen
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Source Coleura gallarum (Mammal Diversity Database)Country distribution, OmanQuote, Country distribution, Oman
Country distribution Djibouti · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Oman · Somalia · Sudan · Yemen
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Source Coleura gallarum (Mammal Diversity Database)Country distribution, SomaliaQuote, Country distribution, Somalia
Country distribution Djibouti · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Oman · Somalia · Sudan · Yemen
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Coleura gallarum (Mammal Diversity Database)Country distribution, SudanQuote, Country distribution, Sudan
Country distribution Djibouti · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Oman · Somalia · Sudan · Yemen
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Coleura gallarum (Mammal Diversity Database)Country distribution, YemenQuote, Country distribution, Yemen
Country distribution Djibouti · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Oman · Somalia · Sudan · Yemen
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1. Coleura gallarum (Mammal Diversity Database)
IUCN Red List status
IUCN Red List status Not Evaluated
Species status
Species status Living
Child Taxon Of: Emballonuridae, Taxonomy
Family: Emballonuridae
In Group: Bats (Chiroptera), Taxonomy
Order: Chiroptera
View the Source2. GBIF Secretariat: Coleura gallarum - GBIF Backbone Taxonomy record
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"scientificName": "Coleura gallarum Thomas, 1915"
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