Emballonura raffrayana Dobson 1878

Emballonura raffrayana Dobson 1878, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878: 876.

Type Locality: Indonesia, Prov. of Papua, Tjenderawasih Div., Geelvinck Bay, Numfor Isl (= Mefor Isl = Noemfor Isl = Numfoor Isl); for clarification see Thomas (1914 b) .

Vernacular Names: Raffray's Sheath-tailed Bat.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Emballonura raffrayana subsp. raffrayana Dobson 1878

Subspecies Emballonura raffrayana subsp. cor Thomas 1915

Subspecies Emballonura raffrayana subsp. stresemanni Thomas 1914

Distribution: Moluccas, New Guinea, Bismark Arch., Solomons, and Vanuatu.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: raffrayana species group. See Flannery (1995 a, b) and Bonaccorso (1998).