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Family English Name Number of Species Image Figure Pteropodidae J. E. Gray, 1821: Old World fruit bats: 191 Rhinolophoidea J. E. Gray, 1825: Family English Name Number of Species Image Figure Rhinopomatidae Bonaparte, 1838: Mouse-tailed bats: 6 Craseonycteridae Hill, 1974: Hog-nosed bat: 1 Megadermatidae H. Allen, 1864: False-vampires: 6 ...
Dobson selected these names to allude to the body size differences of the two groups, with many fruit-eating bats being larger than insect-eating bats. Pteropodidae was the only family he included within Megachiroptera. [5] [8] A 2001 study found that the dichotomy of megabats and microbats did not accurately reflect their evolutionary ...
The general assembly of North Carolina considered a bill in 2007 that would have made Rafinesque's big-eared bat as its state bat. The bill passed 92-15, but died in the state senate. [ 3 ] In 2020, the big brown bat was designated the official state mammal of the District of Columbia . [ 4 ]
A new clade consisting solely of African fruit bats is supported by phylogenetic analysis, which will consist of 12 genera currently placed in several different subfamilies. [7] Conversely, there may have been at least three separate colonization events of Africa by fruit bats. [8] There is also controversy regarding the Southeast Asian fruit ...
Rhinolophoidea is a superfamily of bats. It contains the following families: Craseonycteridae, Hipposideridae, Megadermatidae, Rhinolophidae, Rhinonycteridae, and Rhinopomatidae. [1] [2] It is one of two superfamilies that comprise the suborder Yinpterochiroptera, the other being Pteropodoidea, which only contains the family Pteropodidae. [3]
They range in size from the Shortridge's long-fingered bat, at 3 cm (1 in) plus a 3 cm (1 in) tail, to the great bent-winged bat, at 8 cm (3 in) plus a 7 cm (3 in) tail. Like all bats, miniopterids are capable of true and sustained flight , and have wing lengths ranging from 3 cm (1 in) for many species to 6 cm (2 in) in the western bent-winged ...
The closest relative of Tadarida aegyptiaca of Africa and southwest Asia is Chaerephon jobimena of Madagascar. These two species plus T. brasiliensis of the Americas form a clade believed to be about 9.8 million years old. [2] The genus name Tadarida is attributed to the naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, who gave no clues to its ...