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The Pacific Sheath-tailed Bat or Polynesian Sheath-tailed Bat (Emballonura semicaudata) is a species of sac-winged bat
Sac-winged bat

The 47 species of sac-winged or sheathtailed bats constitute the family Emballonuridae, and can be found in tropical and sub-tropical regions all over the world....
 in the Emballonuridae family.






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The Pacific Sheath-tailed Bat or Polynesian Sheath-tailed Bat (Emballonura semicaudata) is a species of sac-winged bat
Sac-winged bat

The 47 species of sac-winged or sheathtailed bats constitute the family Emballonuridae, and can be found in tropical and sub-tropical regions all over the world....
 in the Emballonuridae family. It is found in American Samoa
American Samoa

American Samoa is an Territories of the United States of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa....
, Fiji
Fiji

Fiji , officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands , is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of Tuvalu....
, Guam
Guam

Guam , officially the Territory of Guam, is an island in the western Pacific Ocean and is an organized, unincorporated insular area of the United States....
, Micronesia
Micronesia

Micronesia , from the Greek language mikros and nesos , is a subregion of Oceania, comprising hundreds of small islands in the Pacific Ocean....
, Palau
Palau

Palau , officially the Republic of Palau , is an borderless country in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 miles east of the Philippines and 2,000 miles south of Tokyo....
, Samoa
Samoa

Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa , is a country governing the western part of the Samoan Islands archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean....
, Tonga
Tonga

The Kingdom of Tonga in the south Pacific Ocean comprises an archipelago of 171 islands, 48 of them inhabited, stretching over a distance of about 800 kilometres in a north-south line....
, and Vanuatu
Vanuatu

Vanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, north-east of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and south of the Solomon Islands, near New Zealand....
. Its natural habitat
Habitat

The term habitat has a number of meanings:* Habitat , a place where a species lives and grows** Human habitat, a place where humans live, work or play...
 is cave
Cave

A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. Some people suggest that the term cave should only apply to cavities that have some part that does not receive daylight; however, in popular usage, the term includes smaller spaces like sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos....
s. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Source

  • Chiroptera Specialist Group 2000. . Downloaded on 19 July 2007.