Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Pacific Sheath-Tailed Bat (Emballonura semicaudata), recorded as Endangered
Pacific Sheath-Tailed Bat (Emballonura semicaudata). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Endangered

Pacific Sheath-Tailed Bat

Emballonura semicaudata

Pacific Sheath-Tailed Bat is a bat in the family Emballonuridae (order Chiroptera) — Emballonura semicaudata, recorded as Endangered.

Status
Endangered
Scientific name
Emballonura semicaudata
Taxonomy
Mammalia · Chiroptera · Emballonuridae · Emballonura

Range and habitat

The Pacific sheath-tailed bat or Polynesian sheath-tailed bat is a sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae found in American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Micronesia, Palau, Samoa (where it is called pe'a vai, tagiti or pe'ape'a vai), Tonga, and Vanuatu. Its natural habitat is caves.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

In crisis

It is threatened by habitat loss. There are estimated to be approximately 500 individuals of the subspecies E. S. Rotensis.

Pacific Sheath-Tailed Bat is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Pacific Sheath-Tailed Bat, Wikidata item Q305649. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Quick answers

What is Pacific Sheath-Tailed Bat?
Pacific Sheath-Tailed Bat is a bat in the family Emballonuridae (order Chiroptera) — Emballonura semicaudata.
What is the conservation status of Pacific Sheath-Tailed Bat?
Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Emballonura semicaudata. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Pacific Sheath-Tailed Bat live?
The Pacific sheath-tailed bat or Polynesian sheath-tailed bat is a sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae found in American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Micronesia, Palau, Samoa (where it is called pe'a vai, tagiti or pe'ape'a vai), Tonga, and Vanuatu.
Why is Pacific Sheath-Tailed Bat in crisis?
There are estimated to be approximately 500 individuals of the subspecies E. S. Rotensis.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Emballonura semicaudata?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Pacific Sheath-Tailed Bat a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.