• Skip to main content

Central QLD Coast Landcare Network

  • Local Plants Database
  • Local Wildlife Database

SEARCH PLANT AND ANIMAL DATABASES

Microbat, Coastal Sheathtail Bat

Taphozous australis


Threatened Species – Rare and restricted to coastal eastern Qld. Always within a few km from the sea.  Roosts in caves and rock crevices along the coast and forages over most coastal vegetation types: open forests, mangroves, scrub, heath & swamps.

A field Guide to the Mammals of Australia by Menkhorst & Knight

Classifications: Mammal
Family: Emballonuridae
Information sources: Photos taken at Proserpine by Dale Mengel

Website by Kapow Interactive