Phoniscus papuensis (Dobson, 1878:339)
Golden-tipped bat, Dome-headed bat, Eastern forest bat (Ogilby, 1892:94; Lucas & Le Souëf, 1909:47)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Kerivoula papuensis Dobson, 1878:339 (basionym)
Conservation Status
Last record: 1897
Rediscovered in 1981
IUCN RedList status: Least Concern
Not a rediscovery?
Distribution
Australia, Indonesia & Papua New Guinea
Type locality: "Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea" (Mahoney & Walton, 1988:134)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: BMNH 78.2.20.1 (skin & skull) (Mahoney & Walton, 1988:134)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Dobson, G. E. (1878). Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). xlii + 567pp., 30pls.
Other references:
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Flannery, T. F. (1995). Mammals of the South-West Pacific and Moluccan Islands. Comstock/Cornell, Ithaca, Ny, USA.
Flannery, T. F. (1995). The Mammals of New Guinea, 2nd edition. Reed Books, Sydney, Australia.
Frith, H. J. (1979). Wildlife Conservation, revised edition. Angus & Robertson. xiv + 416 pp. [p. 323 (species account)]
Hill, J. E. (1965). Asiatic bats of the genera Kerivoula and Phoniscus (Vespertilionidae), with a note on Kerivoula aerosa Tomes. Mammalia 29: 524-556.
Honacki, J. H., Kinman, K. E. and Koeppl, J. W. (1982). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Lawrence: Allen Press & Assoc. Syst. Coll. x + 694 pp.
Hutson, T., Schlitter, D., Csorba, G., Hall, L., Lunney, D. & Hamilton, S. (2008). Phoniscus papuensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T10982A3235314. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T10982A3235314.en. Downloaded on 15 February 2017.
Jackson, Stephen and Groves, Colin. (2015). Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Clayton South, Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing. 529 pp. [p. 265-266]
Jentink, F. A. (1904). On Kerivoula picta (Pallas) and description of a new bat from Paramaribo. Notes Leyden Mus. 24: 174-176.
Koopman, K. F. (1982). Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 109. Bats from eastern Papua and the east Papuan islands. Am. Mus. Novit. 2747: 1-34.
Laurie, Eleanor Mary Ord and Hill, John Edwards. (1954). List of Land Mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and Adjacent Islands, 1758-1952. London: British Museum (Natural History).
Law, B. and Chidel, M. (2004). Roosting and foraging ecology of the golden-tipped bat Kerivoula papuensis on the south coast of New South Wales. Wildl. Res. 31: 73-82.
Lucas, Arthur Henry Shakespeare and Le Souëf, William Henry Dudley. (1909). The Animals of Australia: Mammals, Reptiles and Amphibians. Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs.
Lunney, D. and Barker, J. (1986). The occurrence of Phoniscus papuensis (Dobson) (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) on the south coast of New South Wales. Aust. Mamm. 9: 57-58.
Mahoney, J. A. and Walton, D. W. (1988). Vespertilionidae, pp. 128-145. In: Walton, D. W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. x + 273 pp. [p. 134]
Ogilby, J. Douglas. (1892). Catalogue of Australian Mammals, with Introductory Notes on General Mammalogy. Australian Museum, Sydney: Catalogue No. 16: viii + 142 pp.
Richards, G. C. (1983). Golden-tipped Bat Phoniscus papuensis, p. 355. In: Strahan, Ronald M. (ed.). The Australian Museum Complete Book of Australian Mammals. The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
Ryan, R. M. (1965). Taxonomic status of the verspertilionid genera Kerivoula and Phoniscus. J. Mamm. 46: 517-518.
Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]
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