Eastern Cave Bat
Scientific name: Vespadelus troughtoni
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Eastern Cave Bats roost in caves, sandstone overhangs, and mine tunnels, usually in well-lit areas.
Image: Michael Pennay
"Vespadelus troughtoni" by Michael Pennay is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
"Vespadelus troughtoni" by Michael Pennay is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Fast Facts
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Classification
- Genus
- Vespadelus
- Species
- troughtoni
- Family
- Vespertilionidae
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Subclass
- Eutheria
- Subphylum
- Vertebrata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Kingdom
- Animalia
Introduction
Eastern Cave Bats roost in caves, sandstone overhangs, and mine tunnels, usually in well-lit areas.
Habitat
Eastern Cave Bats live in tropical mixed woodland and wet sclerophyll forests on the coast and along the Great Dividing Range, but extend into drier forest of western slopes and inland areas. They roost in caves, sandstone overhangs, and mine tunnels. Usually well-lit areas. Colonies of up to 500, but 6 to 60 also recorded.
Distribution
Eastern Cave Bats have a wide distribution but are poorly known.
Conservation status
Eastern Cave Bats are vulnerable to disturbance from human visitors to cave roosts, destruction of caves by mining, and loss of feeding habitat by clearing and land degradation from agriculture.
