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--> GENUS Mormopterus
SPECIES Mormopterus planiceps
Author: | Peters, 1866. | Citation: | Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1866: 23. | Common Name: | Southern Free-tailed Bat | Type Locality: | Australia. Probably New South Wales, Sydney; see Iredale and Troughton (1934) for discussion. | Distribution: | S and C Australia. | Status: | IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | norfolkensis species group. Formerly included loriae, but see Flannery (1995a) and Bonaccorso (1998). See Hill (1961b) and Koopman (1984c). This complex may includes at as many as three undescribed species; see Menkhorst and Knight (2001). |
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