🦋 Family

Emballonuridae

12 species · Animals

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Animalia › Chordata › Mammalia › Chiroptera › Emballonuridae

Emballonura monticola Temminck, 1838

Emballonura monticola, the lesser sheath-tailed bat, is a sac-winged bat found across parts of Southeast Asia.

Saccopteryx bilineata (Temminck, 1838)

The greater sac-winged bat is a common Central and South American bat, the first non-primate mammal known to babble.

Saccopteryx leptura (Schreber, 1774)

Saccopteryx leptura, the lesser white-lined bat, is a small sexually dimorphic New World bat that forages in tree canopies.

Peropteryx macrotis (Wagner, 1843)

Peropteryx macrotis, the lesser dog-like bat, is the smallest dog-like bat species found from southern Mexico to parts of South America.

Diclidurus albus Wied-Neuwied, 1820

Diclidurus albus, the northern ghost bat, is a medium-sized neotropical emballonurid bat with distinctive pale fur and a central uropatagium gland.

Cormura brevirostris (Wagner, 1843)

Chestnut sac-winged bat (Cormura brevirostris) is a small bat found in Neotropical moist lowland forests with unique male wing sac placement.

Balantiopteryx plicata Peters, 1867

The gray sac-winged bat is an insectivorous Emballonuridae species found across dry regions from Mexico to northern Colombia.

Balantiopteryx io Thomas, 1904

Thomas's sac-winged bat (Balantiopteryx io) is a sac-winged bat species found in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico.

Rhynchonycteris naso (Wied-Neuwied, 1820)

Rhynchonycteris naso is a small Neotropical bat that lives near water at low elevations from southeastern Mexico to northern Bolivia and Brazil.

Taphozous melanopogon Temminck, 1841

Taphozous melanopogon, the black-bearded tomb bat, is a colonial Asian bat with a distinct black chin fur tuft.

Taphozous nudiventris Cretzschmar, 1826

Taphozous nudiventris, the naked-rumped tomb bat, is a moderate-sized sac-winged bat distributed across northern Africa and western Asia.

Taphozous mauritianus E.Geoffroy, 1818

Taphozous mauritianus, the Mauritian tomb bat, is a relatively large African bat with specialized kidney water conservation adaptations.

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