New Zealand long-tailed bat (Chalinolobus tuberculata)

Query: Vespertilionid bat

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Subject:	New Zealand long-tailed bat (Chalinolobus tuberculata)
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Description
Scotophilus tuberculatus
Date 1857
Source Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1857 (http://www.archive.org/stream/lietuvostsrmoksl56liet#page/n690/mode/1up)
Author GH Ford (George Henry Ford aka G. H. Ford)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ScotophilusTuberculatusFord.jpg

The New Zealand long-tailed bat (Chalinolobus tuberculata), also known as the long-tailed wattled bat or pekapeka-tou-roa (Māori), is a species of bats in the genus Chalinolobus variously known as "pied bats", "wattled bats" or "long-tailed bats". It is endemic to New Zealand, but is closely related to five other species of wattled or lobe-lipped bats in Australia and elsewhere.
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Chalinolobus
Species: Chalinolobus tuberculata (Forster, 1844)

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Scientific Name: Chalinolobus tuberculata (Forster, 1844) Common Names: New Zealand Long-tailed Bat, Long-tailed Wattled Bat Synonyms: Vespertilio tuberculatus Forster, 1844 Chalinolobus tuberculatus (Forster, 1844)

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