Emballonura

• Philippine Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura alecto

  

  This insect-eating bat was recorded in a cave survey in the southern Philippines. Surveyed individuals averaged 76 mm in total length, with tails 31.5 mm long. They roosted in small hollows in partly lit caves.

• Lesser Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura monticola

  

  This bat has glossy brown fur and triangular ears. It hunts insects in tropical forests and roosts in caves or tree hollows.

• Caroline Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura semicaudata

  

  This small brown bat has a tail that passes through the tail membrane. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service profile for the nominate subspecies describes daytime cave roosting and large roost aggregations reported in Fiji and American Samoa.

• Beccari's Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura beccarii

  Beccari's Sheath-tailed Bat is a small bat of New Guinea's forests. In West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, researchers collected multiple individuals from limestone caves.

• Large-eared Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura dianae

  This small insect-eating bat has large ears and roosts in groups in limestone caves on islands.

• Greater Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura furax

  This bat has dark reddish-brown upper fur, a paler underside, and long tapered ears. It is active around dusk and roosts in caves or tunnels.

• Raffray's Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura raffrayana

  This small bat is recorded from the Moluccas through New Guinea and the Solomon Islands to Vanuatu. A field guide describes it roosting in dim cave areas and pursuing insects near treetops.

• Seri's Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura serii

  Seri's Sheath-tailed Bat is a large-bodied sheath-tailed bat recorded on islands east of New Guinea. On New Ireland, it roosts in limestone caves.

• Caroline Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura semicaudata

  This small brown bat has a tail that passes through the tail membrane. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service profile for the nominate subspecies describes daytime cave roosting and large roost aggregations reported in Fiji and American Samoa.

• Philippine Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura alecto

  This insect-eating bat was recorded in a cave survey in the southern Philippines. Surveyed individuals averaged 76 mm in total length, with tails 31.5 mm long. They roosted in small hollows in partly lit caves.

• Lesser Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura monticola

  This bat has glossy brown fur and triangular ears. It hunts insects in tropical forests and roosts in caves or tree hollows.