Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of emballonurids/archive1

List of emballonurids

Featured list candidates/List of emballonurids/archive1

Nominator(s): Pres N 18:03, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mammal list #50 in our perpetual series is bat list #9: Emballonuridae, or the sheath-tailed bats. We're most of the way through bats now, and this family has a bit more size variation, from the size of your thumb to the size of your whole hand. Other than that, though, it's a bunch of similar-looking bats from around the world, and I don't have any particularly unique photos for this one. As always, this list reflects formatting discussions from prior lists as well as the scientific consensus on the family. Thanks for reviewing! --Pres N 18:03, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Excellent work as ever! My only quibble is that A member of this family is called an emballonurid, a sheath-tailed bat, or a sac-winged bat kinda makes it sound as if any one of these bats can be called any one of those three things, but from the list it appears that some are sheath-tailed bats but are not sac-winged bats, some are not sheath-tailed bats but are sac-winged bats, and some (e.g. the ghost bats) are neither.....? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 13:45, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@ChrisTheDude: That is confusing; redid it as "Members of this family are called emballonurids, and include sheath-tailed bats, sac-winged bats, and tomb bats." --Pres N 14:55, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:10, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Jpeeling

There appears to be a slight discrepancy as to whether there are 54 or 55 species, the prose states 55 but the table and conservation status summary only total 54, could you check this please. JP (Talk) 10:54, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Jpeeling: There's 54, good catch, thank you. I had counted by searching for "Species table/row" rather than adding things up, and didn't notice that "Templates used in this preview" added one more. --Pres N 13:06, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A couple of other minor bits spotted:

In your table, the 'Yellow-bellied sheath-tailed bat' is listed as Australia only, but the UICN site lists Papua New Guinea, albeit with a tiny spot on the map

Missed that tiny spot, fixed.

For the 'Lesser dog-like bat', a map is not included in the table but there is one on the bat's page, any reason this was not included here?

Added

Portuguese Wikipedia has a page for Peropteryx pallidoptera (Pale-winged dog-like bat) with a picture, is this definitely the right bat and can it be used here?

Ah, and a map, the categories were messed up on commons so I didn't see them. Added.

There are a few images on Commons entitled Centronycteris centralis (Thomas's shaggy bat) and Paremballonura atrata (Peters's sheath-tailed bat), can any of these be used here?

Added

The maps on Wikipedia for the 'Lesser ghost bat' and 'Greater dog-like bat' do not appear to match with the UICN site exactly, I presume they may have updated theirs since those were created for Wikipedia, is there any way the Wikipedia ones could be updated?

There currently is not a project to update map images, many of which were made 10 years ago, but I do plan to find a way to generate new images directly from the IUCN this year.

JP (Talk) 16:50, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jpeeling: Replied inline. --Pres N 00:05, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]