Chalinolobus

Chalinolobus
Chalinolobus gouldii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Vespertilionidae
Genus:	Chalinolobus Peters, 1866
Species
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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

• Funet
• Animaldiversity