Emballonura semicaudata Peale 1848

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Emballonuridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 381-391 : 388

Emballonura semicaudata Peale 1848

Emballonura semicaudata Peale 1848 , Mammalia, in: Repts. U. S. Expl. Surv., Vol. 8: 23.

Type Locality: Samoa.

Vernacular Names: Polynesian Sheath-tailed Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Emballonura semicaudata subsp. semicaudata Peale 1848

Subspecies Emballonura semicaudata subsp. palauensis Yamashima 1932

Subspecies Emballonura semicaudata subsp. rotensis Yamashima 1943

Subspecies Emballonura semicaudata subsp. sulcata Miller 1911

Distribution: Mariana Isls and Caroline Isls (including Palau Isls), Vanuatu, Fiji Isls, Samoa.

Conservation: U. S. ESA – Candidate taxon (in Aguijan, American Samoa); IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Endangered.

Discussion: semicaudata species group. Includes sulcata, see Griffiths et al. (1991). Subspecies reviewed by Koopman (1997).