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Vespertilionidae Gray 1821
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Description
Family VESPERTILIONIDAE
(VESPER BATS)
• Small to medium-sized bats, with stout bodies, short to moderately long rostra, no elaborate nose appendages (except in a few genera), small to big ears, complete uropatagiumstretching to ends or just before ends of long tails, and generally long narrow wings.
• 5-22 cm.
• Worldwide, except Antarctica.
• From arid deserts to temperate and tropical forests.
• 54 genera, 496 species, at least 708 extant taxa.
• 6 species Critically Endangered, 15 species Endangered, 27 species Vulnerable; 1 species Extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Vespertilionidae, pp. 716-981 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 716, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6397752
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Vespertilionidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Vespertilionidae Gray, 1821 sec. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2019