Lesser Mouse-tailed Bat

Taxobox
name = Lesser Mouse-tailed Bat


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Chiroptera
familia = Rhinopomatidae
genus = "Rhinopoma"
species = "R. hardwickii"
binomial = "Rhinopoma hardwickei"
binomial_authority = Gray, 1831
synonyms = "Rhinopoma hadithaensis" Khajuria, 1988

The Lesser Mouse-tailed Bat ("Rhinopoma hardwickei") is a species of bat in the Rhinopomatidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Thailand, Tunisia, Western Sahara, and Yemen. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, rocky areas, caves, subterranean habitats (other than caves), and hot deserts.

ource

* Benda, P. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/19599/all Rhinopoma hardwickei] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 30 July 2007.