''Saccolaimus'' is a genus of the family
Emballonuridae,
small insectivorous
bat
Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera (). With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out ...
s with distinctive sheathtails and pouches at the wrist.
The species have been placed with genus ''
Taphozous'', in subgenus ''Taphozous'', although an elevation to genus accords with a 1991 revision of Australian emballonurids.
The type species is ''Taphozous saccolaimus'', published by
Coenraad Jacob Temminck
Coenraad Jacob Temminck (; 31 March 1778 – 30 January 1858) was a Dutch people, Dutch patrician, Zoology, zoologist and museum director.
Biography
Coenraad Jacob Temminck was born on 31 March 1778 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic. Fro ...
in 1838,
elevated as generic combination ''
Saccolaimus saccolaimus'' in this arrangement. The genus also follows Temminck's description of that species.
A revision by
George Dobson in 1876 erected the genus name ''Taphonycteris'', once recognised and later suppressed as a synonym to give priority to Temminck's earlier description.
A key to the genus was provided in its 1991 revision by
Christian Chimimba and
Darrell Kitchener
Darrell John Kitchener (born 1943) is a biologist who has been active in mammalian research in Western Australia and Indonesia. He is the author of over one hundred papers, published while employed as the senior research biologist at the Western ...
.
The genus ''Saccolaimus'' Temminck, 1838 contains the following taxa:
* species ''
Saccolaimus flaviventris'' (Peters, 1867). yellow-bellied pouched or sheath-tailed bat
* species ''
Saccolaimus kenyensis'' (Gunnell & Manthi, 2019)
* species ''
Saccolaimus mixtus'' Troughton, 1925. Troughton's pouched bat, Papuan sheath-tailed bat
* species ''
Saccolaimus peli''. Pel's pouched bat
* species ''
Saccolaimus saccolaimus'' Temminck, 1838. naked-rumped pouched bat
The diversity of this genus in Australia, identified as species ''S. saccolaimus'' and ''S. flaviventris'', is poorly resolved and requires re-examination of records.
References
Emballonuridae
Bat genera
Taxa named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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