• 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.