emballonura

Greater Sheath-tailed Bat (Emballonura furax)

Lesser Sheath-tailed Bat (Emballonura monticola)

Pacific Sheath-tailed Bat (Emballonura semicaudata)

Western Sheath-tailed Bat (Emballonura tiavato)

Small Asian Sheath-tailed Bat (Emballonura alecto)

Peters's Sheath-tailed Bat (Emballonura atrata)

Beccari's Sheath-tailed Bat (Emballonura beccarii)

Raffray's Sheath-tailed Bat (Emballonura raffrayana)

Seri's Sheath-tailed Bat (Emballonura serii)

Large-Eared Sheath-tailed Bat (Emballonura dianae)

The Lesser Sheath-tailed Bat (Emballonura monticola) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae.

P. raceyi shares this distinction with a few other Malagasy bats: the large fruit bat Pteropus rufus and both species of the small insectivorous bat Emballonura recorded on Madagascar.

The only mammals that live there were introduced by man like the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans) and bats Dobsonia inermis, Pteropus cognatus, Emballonura nigrescens and Aselliscus tricuspidatus.

In 1896, Oldfield Thomas described Emballonura beccarii meeki, a subspecies of the Beccari's sheath-tailed bat of which Meek had collected the type series on Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands.