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Long-winged Sheath-tailed Bat

Taphozous longimanus

Order
Chiroptera
Family
Emballonuridae
Genus
Taphozous
IUCN status
LC
Distribution
India|Sri Lanka|Bangladesh|Myanmar|Thailand|Laos|Cambodia|Malaysia|Singapore|Indonesia|Brunei
Realm
Palearctic|Indomalaya

Other names: Indian Sheath-tailed Bat|Long-winged Tomb Bat

About this species

Range
Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand

The long-winged tomb bat is a sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand (Wikipedia, general species account).

The cached account is a single sentence and gives no description, measurements, habitat, diet or breeding information, so this entry is limited to identification and range (Wikipedia, general species account).

Description: Wildlife of India guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

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CC BY 4.0 — Edirisinghe G, Surasinghe T, Gabadage D, Botejue M, Perera K, Madawala M, Weerakoon D, Karunarathna S (2018) Chiropteran diversity in the peripheral areas of the Maduru-Oya National Park in Sri Lanka: insights for conservation and management. ZooKeys 784: 139-162. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.784.25562 (source)