- Brandt's Bat
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Brandt's Bat Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Chiroptera Family: Vespertilionidae Genus: Myotis Species: M. brandti Binomial name Myotis brandti
Eversmann, 1845Brandt's Bat (Myotis brandtii) is a species of vesper bat in the Vespertilionidae family. It is found throughout most of Europe and parts of Asia.
It is named for the German zoologist Johann Friedrich von Brandt.
Echolocation
The frequencies used by this bat species for echolocation lie between 32 and 103 kHz, have maximum energy density at 51 kHz and have an average duration of 4.2 ms.[2][3]
References
- ^ Hutson AM, Spitzenberger F, Coroiu I, Aulagnier S, Juste J, Karataş A, Palmeirim J & Paunović M (2008). Myotis brandtii. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 2008-01-27.
- ^ Parsons S and Jones G (2000). "Acoustic identification of twelve species of echolocating bat by discriminant function analysis and artificial neural networks". J Exp Biol 203: 2641–2656.
- ^ Obrist MK, Boesch R and Flückiger PF (2004). "Variability in echolocation call design of 26 Swiss bat species: Consequences, limits and options for automated field identification with a synergic pattern recognition approach". Mammalia 68 (4): 307–32. doi:10.1515/mamm.2004.030.
External links
- ARkive Photographs
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