page_title: Eastern broad-nosed bat
section_title: Taxonomy
hierarchical_section_title: Eastern broad-nosed bat / Taxonomy
caption_attribution_description: Hunters Hill, All Saints Anglican Church
context_page_description: The eastern broad-nosed bat is a species of vespertilionid bat. It is found only in Australia, east of the Great Dividing Range, from about Rockhampton to Melbourne, with a small isolated population on the Atherton Tablelands.
context_section_description: The species was described by Ellis Troughton in 1937, assigning it first as Scoteinus orion then as the type of the genus Scotorepens he established in 1943.
  Troughton's description was of a bat that occurred within New South Wales, and in urban buildings, but was not recognised or previously studied during the preceding century. It was the first of four species he identified in a revision of museum specimens and new collections of material, and the second 'broad-nosed bat' to be discovered in the New South Wales region, distinguishing the species from previously described population later recognised as Scoteanax rueppellii (Rüppell's broad-nosed bat). The first description used a series of specimens, the first of which was noticed by taxidermists employed to rid a church of its bat colony. The workers from the Australian Museum, H. S. Grant and J. H. Wright, succeeded in obtaining a second specimen at the All Saints Church in Hunters Hill, New South Wales. Eleven other specimens from the same site, and another that had dropped from a tree in Taronga Park, were also forwarded to the author.
caption: The All Saints church in Hunters Hill, where the species was discovered after being dislodged by an "impromptu storm fantasia" on the organ.[2]
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