Family NATALIDAE

(FUNNEL-EARED BATS)

• Very smallto medium-sized bats, with smooth, funnelshaped ears; very small eyes covered by mustache-like facial pelage; long legs and tail enclosed in membrane; broad wings; long, silky, and usually pale hair.

• 8-12 cm.

• Nearctic and Neotropical Regions.

• Tropical zone of the New World from desert through wet forest to mountain areas.

• 3 genera, 12 species, 12 taxa.

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