Miniopterus australis Tomes 1858

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 519

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scientific name	Miniopterus australis Tomes 1858
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Miniopterus australis Tomes 1858 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858: 125.

Type Locality: New Caledonia, Loyalty Isls, Lifu (21°S, 167°03'E) ( France). GoogleMaps

Vernacular Names: Little Long-fingered Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Miniopterus australis subsp. australis Tomes 1858

Subspecies Miniopterus australis subsp. solomonensis Maeda 1982

Subspecies Miniopterus australis subsp. tibialis Tomes 1858

Distribution: Philippines, Borneo, Java, Timor, Moluccas, southeast to Vanuatu and E Australia.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Peterson (1981), Maeda (1982), Hill (1983), Koopman (1989 a), Flannery (1995 a, b), and Bonaccorso (1998), but note that these authors included taxa now considered to be distinct species (i.e., paululus , shortridgei ). Revised by Kitchener and Suyanto (2002), who recognized but did not name an additional subspecies from Kai Isl. Does not include witkampi, referred to paululus by Kitchener and Suyanto (2002).