Yellow-lipped bat

Yellow-lipped bat
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Vespadelus
Species:
V. douglasorum
Binomial name
Vespadelus douglasorum
(Kitchener, 1976)
Synonyms

Eptesicus douglasi Kitchener, 1976

The yellow-lipped cave bat (Vespadelus douglasorum) is a vesper bat, an insectivorous flying mammal, that only occurs in the Kimberley region of north-west Australia. The bat was first captured at Tunnel Creek in 1958 and a description published nearly twenty years later. Aside from observations of their physical characteristics, a preference for caves, and hunting insects over streams, little is known of the species.