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Monotypic.; [batnames2022] See Flannery (1995 a , b ) and Bonaccorso (1998).; [batnames2023] See Flannery (1995 a , b ) and Bonaccorso (1998).; [batnames2025_1.7] See Flannery (1995a, b) and Bonaccorso (1998).														papuensis				papuensis	papuensis			papuensis (Dobson, 1878)		Corbet, G.B. and Hill, J.E. 1980. A World List of Mammalian Species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp.	Papuan trumpet-eared bat	E New Guinea, NE Queensland	Honacki, J.H., Kinman, K.E. and Koeppl, J.W. 1982. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Allen Press, Lawrence, 694 pp.	Phoniscus papuensis	Papua New Guinea, Central Prov., Port Moresby.	Dobson	1878	Cat. Chiroptera Br. Mus., p. 339.	Distribution: Known only from eastern New Guinea and from Queensland in Australia.		Corbet, G.B. and Hill, J.E. 1991. A World List of Mammalian Species. Third edition. Oxford University Press, London, 243 pp. ISBN 0-19-854017-5	Papuan trumpet-eared bat	SE New Guinea, E Australia	Koopman, K.F. 1993. Order Chiroptera. Pp. 137–242 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1206 pp.	Dobson	1878	Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus., p. 339.	Subgenus Phoniscus.	SE New Guinea; Queensland, New South Wales (Australia).	Papua New Guinea, Central Prov., Port Moresby.		DOBSON	1878	Angular concavity on posterior margin of ear near apex poorly developed. Anterior palatal emargination angular. Basicoccipital pits well developed. Size relatively large (forearm length, 35-41 mm; condylobasal length, 14-16 mm).	Distribution: Known only from eastern New Guinea and from Queensland in Australia.	No subspecies.		100	species	K. papuensis	DOBSON	1878	Phoniscus	subgenus	Kerivoula papuensis				Angular concavity on posterior margin of ear near apex poorly developed. Anterior palatal emargination angular. Basicoccipital pits well developed. Size relatively large (forearm length, 35-41 mm; condylobasal length, 14-16 mm).	No subspecies.		19. K. papuensis DOBSON 1878.	19	NA			Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (editors). 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. (Available from Johns Hopkins University Press, 1-800-537-5487 or (410) 516-6900, or at http://www.press.jhu.edu).	CHIROPTERA	Vespertilionidae	Kerivoulinae		Phoniscus papuensis	Phoniscus		papuensis	Dobson	y	1878		Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus.			339		Golden-tipped Bat	Papua New Guinea, Central Prov., Port Moresby.	SE New Guinea, Biak-Supiori Isl, Queensland and New South Wales (Australia).	IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc) as Kerivoula papuensis.		See Flannery (1995a, b) and Bonaccorso (1998).	4C3D87E8FF736ACCFF44953A18FDBA58	Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions	978-84-16728-19-0	hbmw_9_Vespertilionidae_716.pdf.imf	hash://md5/b004ff90fffb6a44fffc96591e00bb32	896	zip:hash://sha256/ec5fd314a06aba1a7b0b72f23e54ac625ae272bd98f82f1d01f4c09627d9e8e0!/treatments-xml-main/data/4C/3D/87/4C3D87E8FF736ACCFF44953A18FDBA58.xml	Phoniscus papuensis	Vespertilionidae	Phoniscus	papuensis		1878	Kérivoule papoue @fr | Papua-Trompetenohr @de | Foniscode Papua @es	Kerivoula papuensis Dobson, 1878 , “Port Moresby [Central Province], New Guinea [= Papua New Guinea ].” Phoniscus papuensis is occasionally still included under Kerivoula . Monotypic.	Biak I, E New Guinea , Bismarck Archipelago ( New Britain I), and E Australia in E Queensland and E New South Wales .	Head-body 41-5 53 mm , tail 36-7-42- 3 mm , ear 13.-916- 5 mm , hindfoot 7-11 mm , forearm 34-6-40- 3 mm ; weight 5-3-11- 2 g . Pelage is long and curly. Dorsal pelage is dark brown, with bright golden frosting (hairs tipped with bright gold) that extends along wing, leg, and tail bones and abundantly onto uropatagium; venteris a little lighter and grayer, with pale gray-brown hairs and white tips. Bare skin is brown. Muzzle is narrow, with conspicuously pointed nose that overhangs lower jaw. Ears are funnel-shaped and have very long, straight, and distinctly white tragus with sharply pointed tip and basal notch on posterior edge. Tail is very long, and calcar is long, strong, and curved backward; wings are attached to bases of toes and are abnormally large for the size of the Golden-tipped Bat, which allows a high degree ofagility. Crown ofskull is highly domed.	Primarily rainforests with well-developed overstories of eucalyptus and brushbox and lacking developed subcanopies and also tall open forests, dry and wet sclerophyll forests, riparian forests dominated by Casuarina ( Casuarinaceae ), and coastal Melaleuca ( Myrtaceae ) forests, and inside houses at edges of residential areas from sea level up to elevations of ¢. 1300 m .	Golden-tipped Bats are very specialized to feed on orb-weaving spiders. They typically forage in a 2-km radius inside rainforest gullies or various vegetation cluttered habitats where orb-weaving spiders are most common. They are very maneuverable fliers and can to hover in flight, which might be advantageous when foraging for spiders. Spiders make up 99% of diets in most studies that analyzed stomach contents and fecal samples throughout the year. Freshly eaten spiders in stomach samples were fairly intact, suggesting that they are sucked dry before soft abdomens were swallowed. Small quantities of insects also were occasionally found in stomachs and feces, including beetles, moths, and traces offlies and true bugs. Balls of spider webs have been reported in fecal samples.	In Australia , males have enlarged testes in February-April (one record in September near Cairns, Queensland ). Most females captured in November in Australia are pregnant, and one young is born in November—January. Lactating females were captured in Australia in December—February; by January-February, females stopped lactating and weaned young, and thefirst volant young appeared. Each year, c¢.5% of females did not bred. In New Guinea , a pregnant female was caught in mid-May.	In Australia , Golden-tipped Bats appear to roost most often in abandoned nests of yellow-throated scrubwrens (Sericornis citreogularis) and brown gerygones (Gerygone mouki), which are domed, made of bark fibers, moss, and lichen, and suspended from thin vines and twigs. They also roost in tree hollows and among leaves and epiphytes, and males are known to burrow under clumps of hanging epiphytic moss. All roosts have an entry hole that are made by the bat. In New Guinea , they are known to roost in dead palm fronds, dense foliage with orange to red leaves, and houses. Calls are very steep and long FM sweep, allowing fine detail and texture detection that are very importantto find spiders in webs without getting entangled.	Golden-tipped Bats generally roost alone or in small groups and change roosts every 1-4 days, usually about every day. They do not travel far from roost to roost (average c. 350 m in Australia ). During breeding season, females form maternity colonies of 5-20 females and young.	Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. The Goldentipped Batis difficult to find and poorly represented in museums; however, with the more recent use of harp traps,it is more commonly reported. It is widespread butis likely threatened by deforestation from logging and agriculture. Changesin fire regimes and predation from introduced predators (e.g. cats) are possible threats in Australia .	Bonaccorso (1998) | Churchill (2008) | Flannery (1995a, 1995b) | Hill (1965b) | Hutson, Schlitter, Csorba, Hall, Lunney & Hamilton (2008) | Law & Chidel (2004) | Lunney & Barker (1986) | Rhodes (1995) | Ryan (1965) | Schulz (1995a, 1995b, 2000a, 2000b) | Schulz & Eyre (2000) | Schulz & Wainer (1997) | Walton et al. (1992) | Woodside et al. (2008)	https://zenodo.org/record/6398440/files/figure.png	296. Golden-tipped Bat Phoniscus papuensis French: Kérivoule papoue / German: Papua-Trompetenohr / Spanish: Fonisco de Papua Taxonomy. Kerivoula papuensis Dobson, 1878 , “Port Moresby [Central Province], New Guinea [= Papua New Guinea ].” Phoniscus papuensis is occasionally still included under Kerivoula . Monotypic. Distribution. Biak I, E New Guinea , Bismarck Archipelago ( New Britain I), and E Australia in E Queensland and E New South Wales . Descriptive notes. Head-body 41-5 53 mm , tail 36-7-42- 3 mm , ear 13.-916- 5 mm , hindfoot 7-11 mm , forearm 34-6-40- 3 mm ; weight 5-3-11- 2 g . Pelage is long and curly. Dorsal pelage is dark brown, with bright golden frosting (hairs tipped with bright gold) that extends along wing, leg, and tail bones and abundantly onto uropatagium; venteris a little lighter and grayer, with pale gray-brown hairs and white tips. Bare skin is brown. Muzzle is narrow, with conspicuously pointed nose that overhangs lower jaw. Ears are funnel-shaped and have very long, straight, and distinctly white tragus with sharply pointed tip and basal notch on posterior edge. Tail is very long, and calcar is long, strong, and curved backward; wings are attached to bases of toes and are abnormally large for the size of the Golden-tipped Bat, which allows a high degree ofagility. Crown ofskull is highly domed. C' is long and sheathed into pocket in lower lip when mouth is closed, canines have longitudinal groove, and I, is reduced compared with IL, Habitat. Primarily rainforests with well-developed overstories of eucalyptus and brushbox and lacking developed subcanopies and also tall open forests, dry and wet sclerophyll forests, riparian forests dominated by Casuarina ( Casuarinaceae ), and coastal Melaleuca ( Myrtaceae ) forests, and inside houses at edges of residential areas from sea level up to elevations of ¢. 1300 m . Food and Feeding. Golden-tipped Bats are very specialized to feed on orb-weaving spiders. They typically forage in a 2-km radius inside rainforest gullies or various vegetation cluttered habitats where orb-weaving spiders are most common. They are very maneuverable fliers and can to hover in flight, which might be advantageous when foraging for spiders. Spiders make up 99% of diets in most studies that analyzed stomach contents and fecal samples throughout the year. Freshly eaten spiders in stomach samples were fairly intact, suggesting that they are sucked dry before soft abdomens were swallowed. Small quantities of insects also were occasionally found in stomachs and feces, including beetles, moths, and traces offlies and true bugs. Balls of spider webs have been reported in fecal samples. Breeding. In Australia , males have enlarged testes in February-April (one record in September near Cairns, Queensland ). Most females captured in November in Australia are pregnant, and one young is born in November—January. Lactating females were captured in Australia in December—February; by January-February, females stopped lactating and weaned young, and thefirst volant young appeared. Each year, c¢.5% of females did not bred. In New Guinea , a pregnant female was caught in mid-May. Activity patterns. In Australia , Golden-tipped Bats appear to roost most often in abandoned nests of yellow-throated scrubwrens (Sericornis citreogularis) and brown gerygones (Gerygone mouki), which are domed, made of bark fibers, moss, and lichen, and suspended from thin vines and twigs. They also roost in tree hollows and among leaves and epiphytes, and males are known to burrow under clumps of hanging epiphytic moss. All roosts have an entry hole that are made by the bat. In New Guinea , they are known to roost in dead palm fronds, dense foliage with orange to red leaves, and houses. Calls are very steep and long FM sweep, allowing fine detail and texture detection that are very importantto find spiders in webs without getting entangled. Movements, Home range and Social organization. Golden-tipped Bats generally roost alone or in small groups and change roosts every 1-4 days, usually about every day. They do not travel far from roost to roost (average c. 350 m in Australia ). During breeding season, females form maternity colonies of 5-20 females and young. Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. The Goldentipped Batis difficult to find and poorly represented in museums; however, with the more recent use of harp traps,it is more commonly reported. It is widespread butis likely threatened by deforestation from logging and agriculture. Changesin fire regimes and predation from introduced predators (e.g. cats) are possible threats in Australia . Bibliography. Bonaccorso (1998), Churchill (2008), Flannery (1995a, 1995b), Hill (1965b), Hutson, Schlitter, Csorba, Hall, Lunney & Hamilton (2008), Law & Chidel (2004), Lunney & Barker (1986), Rhodes (1995), Ryan (1965), Schulz (1995a, 1995b, 2000a, 2000b), Schulz & Eyre (2000), Schulz & Wainer (1997), Walton et al. (1992), Woodside et al. (2008).	Simmons, N.B. and A.L. Cirranello. 2022B. Bat Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic database. Accessed on 10/11/2022.	Vespertilionidae	Phoniscus papuensis	Phoniscus		papuensis	Dobson	1878	1	Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus.	pl. 339	Golden-tipped Bat	None.	Papua New Guinea, Central Prov., Port Moresby.	SE New Guinea, Biak-Supiori Isl, Queensland and New South Wales (Australia).	Not listed.	Vulnerable	See Flannery (1995 a , b ) and Bonaccorso (1998).	Mammal Diversity Database. (2023). Mammal Diversity Database (Version 1.11) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7830771 released 15 April 2023	Phoniscus papuensis	23	Golden-tipped Bat		Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	CHIROPTERA	VESPERTILIONIFORMES	NA	NA	VESPERTILIONOIDEA	VESPERTILIONIDAE	KERIVOULINAE	NA	Phoniscus	NA	papuensis	Dobson	1878	1						"Port Moresby [Central Province], New Guinea [= Papua New Guinea]."			papuensis (Dobson, 1878)	NA	NA	Indonesia|Papua New Guinea|Australia	Oceania	Australasia/Oceania	VU	0	0	0	Phoniscus_papuensis	0	sciname match	Phoniscus_papuensis	0	IUCN. 2022. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-1. https://www.iucnredlist.org. Accessed on [28 September, 2022].	10982	Phoniscus papuensis	ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	CHIROPTERA	VESPERTILIONIDAE	Phoniscus	papuensis	(Dobson, 1878)		20000000	Phoniscus papuensis	Vulnerable	A4c	2021	2020-12-10 00:00:00 UTC	3.1	English	Phoniscus papuensis is assessed as Vulnerable under criterion A4c because its population (and number of mature individuals) is suspected to have undergone a reduction of 30–35% over three generations (16.8 years, GL = 5.6 years, Pacifici et al. 2013) including both past and future periods (2017 to 2033) due to extensive wildfires in 2019/20 (covering almost 20 million ha of south-eastern Australia) and the preceding drought between 2017 and 2019. The species is presumed to have suffered substantial direct mortality and loss of habitat during the wildfires. The preceding drought created conditions for the wildfires and may have impacted indirectly on P. papuensis through reduced prey availability, water availability and impacts to thermoregulatory efficiency. The proportion of its area of occupancy (AOO) that burnt in 2019/20 is 40.88%. The AOO is already small at 2,128 km², therefore any losses are significant. In New South Wales (NSW), these fires burnt over or within 500 m of 523 P. papuensis records (from 1,324 records), directly impacting 40% of known records in this state (using FESMv2.1 fire extent and severity modelling). Post fire bat surveys from Chaelundi National Park in April and October 2020 (several months after the end of the fires) failed to detect this species in areas where it was previously known (Lloyd pers. com.). Further post-fire surveys for P. papuensis are currently underway across its range in NSW. So far, the species has not been re-trapped in areas where it was previously recorded in the Coffs Harbour hinterlands and north of Dorrigo. In northern NSW, P. papuensis was trapped in high, low and unburnt areas, although numbers were lower in the burnt areas compared to previous trapping results. Whilst it is too early for this study to shed information on the magnitude of the impact of the fires, areas with extensive high severity burns from the 2019-2020 wildfire are expected to have reduced P. papuensis numbers. Wildfire associated with extreme heat events will be an ongoing threat to this species, the impacts will be long term, unlikely to be reversible, and is predicted to increase in frequency and intensity (Collins et al. 2019). Such events cause change to this species’ preferred habitat and/or impact directly on individuals. This species is listed as Vulnerable in New South Wales. It is not currently listed as threatened in Queensland or federally, however, due to the impact of the recent wildfires this warrants a reassessment.	This medium-sized (Churchill 2008), nocturnal insectivorous bat specialises on foraging on spiders from the family Araneida (Schulz and Wainer 1997) which it plucks from webs often on the mid to upper slopes of sclerophyll forests (Schulz 2000a, Law and Chidel 2004). It doesn’t venture far from its roosts, which are almost always in the nests of the yellow-throated scrub-wren and to a lesser extent the brown gerygone (Gerygone mouki , Schulz 2000b, Law and Chidel 2004). These nests occur in rainforest lined gullies, where the species seems to prefer those in the more cluttered smaller orders (Schulz and Eyre 2000). With broad wings and large tail, P. papuensis is capable of hovering and highly manoeuvrable flight (Rhodes 1995).	This species is dependent on rainforested gullies containing yellow-throated scrub-wren (Sericornis citreogularis ) nests for roosting and forested mid to upper slopes for foraging. As a result, it is threatened by habitat alteration from development, agriculture and logging, and changes to vegetation type from climate change and associated droughts and fires. The proportion of the species habitat that burnt in the 2019/20 Australian fires is 40.88%. In New South Wales (NSW), these fires burnt over or within 500 m of 523 P. papuensis records (from 1324 records), directly impacting 40% of known records in this state (using FESMv2.1 fire extent and severity modelling). Post fire bat surveys from Chaelundi National Park in April and October 2020 (several months after the end of the fires) failed to detect this species in areas where it was previously known (Lloyd pers. com.). Further post-fire surveys for P. papuensis are currently underway across its range in NSW. So far, the species has not been re-trapped in areas where it was previously recorded in the Coffs Harbour hinterlands and north of Dorrigo. In northern NSW, P. papuensis was trapped in high, low and unburnt areas, although numbers were lower in the burnt areas compared to previous trapping results. Whilst it is too early for this study to shed information on the magnitude of the impact of the fires, areas with extensive high severity burns from the 2019–2020 wildfire are expected to have reduced P. papuensis numbers. Wildfire associated with extreme heat events will be an ongoing threat to this species, the impacts will be long term, unlikely to be reversible, and is predicted to increase in frequency and intensity (Collins et al. 2019). Such events cause change to this species’ preferred habitat and/or impact directly on individuals. Feral cats are present in rainforests of Australia and with its slow and hovering flight, P. papuensis may be susceptible to additional predation pressure from introduced predators (Duncan et al. 1999). It is indirectly impacted by changes in prey abundance or temperature shifts that may cause disruption to its thermoregulatory requirements. The threats to the species outside of Australia are less well known but assumed to be drought, logging and wood harvesting, invasive species (fire ants) and land clearing for agriculture.	The population size of P. papuensis is unknown. Across its entire biogeographical range, it is likely that over 10,000 individuals exist based on extent of occurrence and generally low numbers of individuals trapped at any one time. The full extent of this bat's range in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia remains unknown and a taxonomic review would assist in confirming its extent in the northern part of its range. Population densities vary across its distribution (Pennay et al. 2011), ranging from being rare to low to moderate densities in suitable habitats. The species population is suspected to have undergone a reduction of 30-35% over three generations (16.8 years, GL = 5.6 years, Pacifici et al. 2013) including both past and future periods (2017 to 2033) due to extensive wildfires in 2019/20 (covering almost 20 million ha of south-eastern Australia) and the preceding drought between 2017-2019.	Unknown	This species is found in both East and West New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea) (S. Hamilton pers. comm.), and along the coastline of eastern Australia where it ranges from Cape York Peninsula in Queensland to southern New South Wales (Flannery 1995a, Bonaccorso 1998, Duncan et al. 1999, Woodside et al. 2008). It also has been recorded on the island of Biak (Indonesia), and at a few scattered localities on the island of New Guinea (in Papua New Guinea only) (Flannery 1995a,b). Within Papuan New Guinea it has an altitudinal range from sea level to 1,300 m asl (Bonaccorso 1998). Its area of occupancy (AOO) was calculated using all known museum and government database records for the species using a 2 km grid in Atlas of Living Australia AOO spatial tool <a href="https://www.ala.org.au/spatial-portal-help/aoo/">https://www.ala.org.au/spatial-portal-help/aoo/</a>.		Terrestrial	The species has been recorded from a number of protected areas, and it is listed as Vulnerable in New South Wales. It is not currently listed as threatened in Queensland or federally, however following the 2019-20 wildfires the species was included in the national provisional list of animals requiring urgent management intervention released by the federal government on 20 March 2020. Further studies are needed into the ecology, distribution, abundance, and threats to this species, especially the impact of widespread, severe wildfires. Long-term monitoring is required to determine population trends over time. The taxonomy needs to be revisited for the species disjunct populations in Papua New Guinea.	Australasian		FALSE	FALSE	Global	Simmons, N. B., & Cirranello, A. L. (2023). Batnames.org Species List Version 1.4 (1.4). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8136157 	Vespertilionidae	Phoniscus		papuensis	Dobson	1878	1	Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus.	pl. 339	Golden-tipped Bat	None.	Papua New Guinea, Central Prov., Port Moresby.	SE New Guinea, Biak-Supiori Isl, Queensland and New South Wales (Australia).	Not listed.	Vulnerable	See Flannery (1995 a , b ) and Bonaccorso (1998).	Phoniscus papuensis	1005313	23	Golden-tipped Bat		Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	CHIROPTERA	VESPERTILIONIFORMES	NA	NA	VESPERTILIONOIDEA	Vespertilionidae	KERIVOULINAE	NA	Phoniscus	NA	papuensis	Dobson	1878	1						"Port Moresby [Central Province], New Guinea [= Papua New Guinea]."			papuensis (Dobson, 1878)	NA	NA				Indonesia|Papua New Guinea|Australia	Oceania	Australasia/Oceania	VU	0	0	0	Phoniscus_papuensis	0	sciname match	Phoniscus_papuensis	0	Burgin, C. J., Zijlstra, J. S., Becker, M. A., Handika, H., Alston, J. M., Widness, J., Liphardt, S., Huckaby, D. G., and Upham, N. S. (2025). How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge. Journal of Mammalogy in revision: TBD. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.27.640393	Phoniscus_papuensis	1005313	23	Golden-tipped Bat		Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	Chiroptera	Yangochiroptera	NA	NA	Vespertilionoidea	Vespertilionidae	Kerivoulinae	NA	Phoniscus	NA	papuensis	Dobson	1	Kerivoula papuensis	Dobson, G.E. 1878-06-15. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Taylor and Francis, London, 567 pp.	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37695405	BMNH:Mamm:1878.2.20.1	holotype	https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/74bed160-6a20-4d38-a1fe-9112d00d5a1f	"Port Moresby [Central Province], New Guinea [= Papua New Guinea]."			NA	NA				Indonesia|Papua New Guinea|Australia	Oceania (Continent)	Australasia	VU	0	0	0	Phoniscus_papuensis	0	sciname match	Phoniscus_papuensis	0	Simmons, N. B., & Cirranello, A. L. (2025). Batnames.org Species List Version 1.7 (1.7). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14796586	Vespertilionidae	Phoniscus		papuensis	Dobson	1878	1	Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus.	p. 339	Golden-tipped Bat	None.	Papua New Guinea, Central Prov., Port Moresby.	SE New Guinea, Biak-Supiori Isl, Queensland and New South Wales (Australia).	<a href='https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php' target='_blank'>Not Listed</a>	<a href='https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/10982/22021190/' target='_blank'>Vulnerable</a>	See Flannery (1995a, b) and Bonaccorso (1998).		Mammal Diversity Database. (2025). Mammal Diversity Database (Version 2.2) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15007505	NA	Phoniscus papuensis; Phoniscus papuensis; Phoniscus papuensis; Phoniscus papuensis; Phoniscus papuensis; Phoniscus papuensis; papuensis; Kérivoule papoue; Papua-Trompetenohr; Foniscode Papua; Golden-tipped Bat; Golden-tipped Bat; Golden-tipped Bat; Kerivoula papuensis; P. papuensis