''Emballonura'' (meaning: Erect tail) is a genus of

sac-winged bat Emballonuridae is a family (biology), family of microbats, many of which are referred to as sac-winged or sheath-tailed bats. They are widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions around the world. The earliest fossil records are from ...

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Emballonuridae Emballonuridae is a family of microbats, many of which are referred to as sac-winged or sheath-tailed bats. They are widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions around the world. The earliest fossil records are from the Eocene. Desc ...

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Small Asian sheath-tailed bat The small Asian sheath-tailed bat (''Emballonura alecto'') is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. It is found in Borneo, Sulawesi, and the Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is a ...

(''E. alecto'') *

Beccari's sheath-tailed bat Beccari's sheath-tailed bat (''Emballonura beccarii'') is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. It is found in New Guinea and in some nearby islands in both Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Taxonomy It was described as a new ...

(''E. beccarii'') *

Large-eared sheath-tailed bat The large-eared sheath-tailed bat (''Emballonura dianae'') is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. It is found in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados ...

(''E. dianae'') *

Greater sheath-tailed bat The greater sheath-tailed bat or New Guinea sheath-tailed bat (''Emballonura furax'') is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. It is endemic to New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known ...

(''E. furax'') *

Lesser sheath-tailed bat The lesser sheath-tailed bat (''Emballonura monticola'') is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. It is found in the Malay Peninsula (including Myanmar and Thailand), Borneo, and many other parts of the Indonesian Archipelago ...

(''E. monticola'') *

Raffray's sheath-tailed bat Raffray's sheath-tailed bat (''Emballonura raffrayana'') is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. It is found in eastern Indonesia (including Western New Guinea), Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands Solomon Islan ...

(''E. raffrayana'') *

Pacific sheath-tailed bat The Pacific sheath-tailed bat or Polynesian sheath-tailed bat (''Emballonura semicaudata'') is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae found in American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Micronesia, Palau, Samoa (where it is called ''pe'a vai, ...

(''E. semicaudata'') *

Seri's sheath-tailed bat Seri's sheath-tailed bat (''Emballonura serii'') is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. It is found in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea and Yapen Island Yapen (also Japen, Jobi) is an island of Papua (province ...

(''E. serii'')

References

Bat genera Taxa named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Emballonuridae-stub