This is the tube-nosed insectivorous bat Murina florium, considered to be the "rarest mammal recorded alive in Australia". From Wordnik.com. [Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia] Reference
The lesser tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene draconilla) and greater sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura furax) are considered vulnerable. From Wordnik.com. [Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests] Reference
Two of these species are globally threatened: the vulnerable Seram flying-fox (Pteropus ocularis) and lesser tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene minutus). From Wordnik.com. [Buru rain forests] Reference
Of these endemic and near-endemic species, the Fijian blossom-bat (Notopteris macdonaldi) and Banks flying-fox (Pteropus fundatus) are considered vulnerable, and the Nendö tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene sanctacrucis) is presumed to be extinct. From Wordnik.com. [Vanuatu rain forests] Reference
A tube-nosed fruit bat of the Nyctimene species, which is one of the exotic animals, some completely new to science, which have been discovered by experts from Conservation. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Kittiwakes, tube-nosed swimmers, ivory gulls, cormorants, little auks and other birds were flying up and down and along the cliff's face, or perching upon ledges on the rock, and, like the birds on the island, making a great deal of discordant noise. From Wordnik.com. [Bobby of the Labrador] Reference
Other new species found were a tube-nosed bat named Murina harpioloides that lives in southeastern Vietnam and a new bird species called the Nonggang babbler found in the karst rainforest on the Chinese-Vietnamese border, an area of limestone fissures, sinkholes and underground streams. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Bulmer's fruit bat (Aproteles bulmerae) and the large pogonomelomys (Pogonomelomys bruijni) are critically endangered, whereas the lesser tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene draconilla), New Guinea sheathtail-bat (Emballonura furax), Fly River horseshoe-bat (Hipposideros muscinus), and Papuan mastiff bat (Otomops papuensis) are considered vulnerable. From Wordnik.com. [Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests] Reference
A gull-like bird called a shearwater belong to the "tube-nosed swimmers," on account of their curious long beaks. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of California] Reference
Round-eared tube-nosed bat (Murina cyclotis). From Wordnik.com. [Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests] Reference
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