The Sulawesi yellow bat (''Scotophilus celebensis'') is a species of

vesper bat Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats. The vespertilionid family is the most diverse and widely distributed of bat famili ...

. It is found only in

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

Taaxonomy

The Sulawesi yellow bat was described by Dutch mammalogist Henry Jacob Victor Sody in 1928. He placed it in the now-defunct genus ''Pachyotis'' as a subspecies of ''Pachyotis temmincki'', which is now recognized as a synonymm for ''Scotophilus kuhlii'' (

Lesser Asiatic yellow bat The lesser Asiatic yellow bat (''Scotophilus kuhlii'') is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China ...

). The

holotype A holotype (Latin: ''holotypus'') is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of s ...

had been collected in

Sulawesi Sulawesi ( ), also known as Celebes ( ), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the List of islands by area, world's 11th-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Min ...

. Later authors have argued that ''Scotophilus celebensis'' is synonymous with ''Scotophilus heathii'', the

Greater Asiatic yellow bat The greater Asiatic yellow bat (''Scotophilus heathii'') is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. Like m ...

Range and habitat

The Sulawesi yellow bat is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to Indonesia, where it is only known from the island of Sulawesi. It likely uses forest habitat, and may roost in houses during the day.

References

Scotophilus Bats of Indonesia Bat, Sulawesi yellow Mammals of Sulawesi Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Mammals described in 1928 {{Vespertilionidae-stub