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Small Asian sheath-tailed bat

species of mammal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ305061 ↗
Source-derived summary

The small Asian sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura alecto) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. It is found in Borneo, Sulawesi, and the Philippines.

Habitat

Roosting sites for the Small Asian sheath-tailed bat have been identified in various locations, including caves, man-made tunnels, and shallow areas beneath rocks, overhangs, and crevices.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q305061. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Small Asian sheath-tailed bat” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.