The Malayan free-tailed bat lives in forests and roosts in dead or hollow trees. A related species can be distinguished by the number of teeth in the upper jaw.
It has four teeth in the upper jaw. A similar Asian wrinkle-lipped bat has five, a distinction useful for specimens but difficult to apply to live bats in the field.
It inhabits forests and uses dead or hollowed trees as roosts.
IUCN Red List · Near Threatened (NT) · Global