[4] The holotype, a female skull and skin, was collected at a mine site, Marandoo, near Mount Bruce in the Hamersley Range National Park (Karijini NP).

[5][2] The type specimen was captured with a mistnet while fleeing disturbance at the roof of an adit, located within the Marangaroo mine site.

The author of the species named it for the mammalogist John Edwards Hill of the British Museum, who had assisted Kitchener and previously worked on the taxonomy of Australian chiropterans.

[6] The radial-metacarpal pouch on the wing, a small structure at the wrist, found in some similar species, is present in T. hilli.

[3] Taphozous hilli occurs in the west and centre of the continent in semi-arid regions, it is a specialist in desert environs.

They will occupy a mine site shortly after human presence ceases and congregate with the common sheath-tailed bat Taphozous georgianus.

[9] Threats are noted as the loss of roost sites and habitat through destruction or dilapidation of the local ecology caused by mining operations and alterations to land use such as pastoralism and agriculture.