Taphozous perforatus | UAE National Red List of Mammals: Marine and Terrestrial
Taxa
Taphozous perforatus | É. Geoffroy, 1818
Asessment status in full
Data deficient
Assessment status abreviation
DD
Assessment rationale/justification
This bat is assessed as Data Deficient because the species was first recorded in 2018 from one site in the Hajar Mountains. No regional adjustment is made to the Data Deficient assessment.
Assessment year
2018
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
UAE National Red List Workshop
Affliation of assessor(s)/contributors/reviewers listed on assessment
Government
IGO
Assessor affiliation specific
Government|IGO
Criteria system specifics
IUCN v3.1
Criteria system used
IUCN
Criteria Citation
IUCN. 2012. IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1, Second edition. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. iv + 32pp pp. And IUCN. 2012. Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels: Version 4.0. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iii + 41pp.
URL (link) of redlist assessment or publication
https://www.moccae.gov.ae/assets/download/b352eff1/UNRL%20of%20Mammals%20-%20Report%202019.pdf.aspx?view=true
Endemic to region
Not_assigned
Endemism Notes
Is an endemic?: Not_assigned
Threats listed in assessment
Unknown. The increasing extent and intensity of urban lighting may have a negative impact on nocturnal flying invertebrates, the main prey base. Species in the mountains may be affected indirectly by falling water tables due to over-abstraction and reduced precipitation.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
The backcasted 1996 assessment for this species is Data Deficient.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Taphozous perforatus | Animalia | Chordata | Mammalia | Chiroptera | Emballonuridae | Taphozous |