Life Mammalia Chiroptera Emballonuridae

• Taphozous australis Gould, 1854 N.Queensland, Torres Strait Is., SE.New Guinea. See [maps]

  • Taphozous australis Gould, 1854; Mamm. Aust.: 3; TL: Queensland, Albany I.
  • fumosus
• Taphozous georgianus Thomas, 1915 Australia. See [maps]

  • Taphozous georgianus Thomas, 1915; J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 24 (1): 62; TL: W.Australia, King Georges Sound
  • troughtoni
• Taphozous hamiltoni Thomas, 1920 S.Sudan, Chad, Kenya. See [maps]

  • Taphozous hamiltoni Thomas, 1920; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) 5: 142; TL: Sudan, Equatoria, Mongalla
• Taphozous hildegardeae Thomas, 1909 Kenya, NE.Tanzania, Zanzibar. See [maps]

  • Taphozous hildegardeae Thomas, 1909; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (8) 4: 98; TL: Kenya, Rabai (near Mombasa)
• Taphozous hilli Kitchener, 1980 W.Australia, Northern Territory. See [maps]

  • Taphozous hilli Kitchener, 1980; Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 8: 162; TL: W.Australia, Hamersley range, near Mt. Bruce
• Taphozous kapalgensis McKean & Friend, 1979 Australia (Northern Territory). See [maps]

  • Taphozous kapalgensis McKean & Friend, 1979; Vict. Nat. 96: 239; TL: Northern Territory, S. Alligator River, near Rookery Point, Kapalga
• Taphozous longimanus Hardwicke, 1825 Sri Lanka, India - Kampuchea, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Flores, Bali. See [maps]

  • Taphozous longimanus Hardwicke, 1825; Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 14: 525; TL: Bengal, Calcutta
• Taphozous mauritianus Geoffroy, 1818 South Africa - Sudan, Somalia - Senegal, Mauritius, Madagascar, Reunion, Assumption I., Aldabra I.. See [maps]

  • Taphozous mauritianus Geoffroy, 1818; Descrip. de L'Egypte 2: 127; TL: Mauritius
• Taphozous melanopogon Temminck, 1841 Sri Lanka, India, Burma, Laos, Vietnam, S.China, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Savu, Sumbawa, Timor, Kei I., Lombok?. See [maps]

  • Taphozous melanopogon Temminck, 1841; Monogr. Mamm. 2: 287; TL: W.Java, Bantam
• Taphozous nudiventris Cretzschmar, 1830 Senegal - Somalia, Tanzania, Mauritania, Sudan, Egypt, Palestine, Arabia, Iraq, NE.Iran, Afghanistan - Burma. See [maps]

  • Taphozous nudiventris Cretzschmar, 1830; in Ruppell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Africa Saugeth.,: 70; TL: Giza, Egypt
  • kachensis
  • nudiventer
  • nudiventris magnus (Wettstein, 1913); (Iraq); TL: Basra
  • babylonicus
  • Taphozous nudiventris zayidi Harrison, 1955; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (12)8: 897; TL: Al Ain, Buraimi Oasis, Oman, Arabia
• Taphozous perforatus Geoffroy, 1818 Senegal - Zaire - Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia - Sudan, Egypt, S.Arabia, S.Iran, Pakistan, NW.India. See [maps] Egyptinhautalepakko

  • Taphozous perforatus Geoffroy, 1818; Descrip. de L'Egypte 2: 126; TL: Egypt, Kom Ombo
  • australis
  • haedinus
  • rhodesiae
  • senegalensis
  • sudani
  • swirae
• Taphozous philippinensis Waterhouse, 1845 Philippines. See [maps]

  • Taphozous philippinensis Waterhouse, 1845; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1845: 9; TL: Philippines
  • solifer
  • ?Taphozous solifer Hollister, 1913; Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 26: 157; TL: Peking, Chi-li, China
• Taphozous theobaldi Dobson, 1872 C.India - Indochina, Java. See [maps]

  • Taphozous theobaldi Dobson, 1872; Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal: 152; TL: Burma, Tenasserim

• ?Taphozous capito (Hollister, 1913)

  • Taphonycteris capito Hollister, 1913; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 46: 308; TL: Pandan, Catanduanes I., Philippines
• ?Taphozous cavaticus Hollister, 1913

  • Taphozous cavaticus Hollister, 1913; Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 26: 157; TL: Moeara Dua, near Emmahaven, S of Padang, W.Sumatra

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