Mammals of the WorldBlack-bearded Tomb Bat
Taphozous melanopogon
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Emballonuridae
- Genus
- Taphozous
- IUCN status
- LC
- Distribution
- India|Sri Lanka|Bangladesh|Myanmar|China|Thailand|Laos|Vietnam|Cambodia|Malaysia|Singapore|Indonesia|Brunei|Philippines|East Timor
- Realm
- Indomalaya|Australasia
About this species
The black-bearded tomb bat has a tuft of black fur on the chin, like a small beard, and blackish-brown fur with white hair bases. Its forearm is 55 to 68 mm. Temminck described it in 1841 (Wikipedia, general species account). It breeds seasonally, with a gestation of 120 to 125 days and usually one young, occasionally twins. The species occurs in South and Southeast Asia at up to about 800 m (Wikipedia, general species account). (Wikipedia, general species account).
It is highly social and roosts in temples, ruins and caves, in aggregations of up to 15,000. The species belongs to sac-winged bat found in South and South East Asia. Its range includes the following countries: Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam. It was described as a new species in 1841 by Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. (Wikipedia, general species account).
Description: Wildlife of sulawesi guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)