HIPPOSIDERIDAE, Lydekker, 1891

Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Hipposideridae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 227-258 : 227

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3739808

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3810949

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BD87A2-C676-A204-FC35-FDF5F6AE45AE

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scientific name

HIPPOSIDERIDAE
status

 

Family HIPPOSIDERIDAE View in CoL

(OLD WORLD LEAF-NOSED BATS)

• Small to large-sized insectivorous bats with soft fine pelage; small eyes; and distinctive, large, but simple noseleaves on top of muzzles.

• 7-16 cm. View Figure

• Palearctic, Afrotropical, Indo-Malayan, and Australasian Regions. View Figure

• Deserts, arid grasslands, savannas, tropical forests, from sea level to mid-elevations on mountains.

• 7 genera, 88 species, 129 taxa.

• 2 species Critically Endangered, 1 Endangered, 13 Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Hipposideridae

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