Lord Howe Long-eared Bat

Lord Howe Long-Eared Bat
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Vespertilionidae
Genus:	Nyctophilus
Species:	N. howensis
Binomial name
Nyctophilus howensis McKean, 1975

The Lord Howe Long-Eared Bat (Nyctophilus howensis) is a species of vesper bat in the Vespertilionidae family. It is known only from a single skull found on Lord Howe Island in 1972 and dated to the 20th century. It may thus be extinct; if not it is certainly endangered.

References

• Chiroptera Specialist Group 1996. Nyctophilus howensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 July 2007.

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