- Chalinolobus
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Chalinolobus Chalinolobus gouldii Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Chiroptera Family: Vespertilionidae Genus: Chalinolobus
Peters, 1866Species See text
Bats of the genus Chalinolobus are commonly known as pied, wattled, or long-tailed bats. They have fleshy lobes at the bottom edge of their ears and on their lower lips. The bats otherwise classified in the genus Glauconycteris are included in Chalinolobus by some zoologists.
Species
- Large-eared Pied Bat (Chalinolobus dwyeri)
- Gould's Wattled Bat (Chalinolobus gouldii)
- Chocolate Wattled Bat (Chalinolobus morio)
- New Caledonia Wattled Bat (Chalinolobus neocaledonicus), sometimes treated as a subspecies of Chalinolobus gouldii
- Hoary Wattled Bat (Chalinolobus nigrogriseus)
- Little Pied Bat (Chalinolobus picatus )
- New Zealand Long-tailed Bat or Long-tailed Wattled Bat (Chalinolobus tuberculatus)
References
- Churchill, Sue (1998). Australian Bats. New Holland Publishers.
External links
Categories:- Vesper bats
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