Species profile—Mormopterus norfolkensis (east coast freetail bat)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Molossidae (freetail-bats) → Mormopterus norfolkensis (east coast freetail bat)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Molossidae (freetail-bats)
- Scientific name
- Mormopterus norfolkensis (Gray, 1839)
- Common name
- east coast freetail bat
- Type reference
- Gray, J.E. (1839) Descriptions of some Mammalia discovered in Cuba by W.S.MacLeay, Esq. With some account of their habits, extracted from Mr.MacLeay's notes. Ann. Nat. Hist.4:1-7
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1000
- Synonym(s)
- Tadarida norfolkensis
Nyctinomus norfolkensis
Micronomus norfolkensis
Molossus norfolkensis - Alternate name(s)
- eastern little mastiff-bat
eastern coastal free-tailed bat
eastern freetail-bat
east-coast freetail bat
eastern micronomus
eastern wrinkle-lipped bat
Norfolk Island freetail-bat
Norfolk Island scurrying bat
Norfolk Island mastiff-bat - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1000.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
