FURIPTERIDAE, Gray, 1866

Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Furipteridae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 412-417 : 412

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5733446

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6833969

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039187AC-5C3E-2A53-F326-08B938D2FB28

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Plazi

scientific name

FURIPTERIDAE
status

 

Family FURIPTERIDAE View in CoL

(SMOKY BAT THUMBLESS BAT)

• Small bats with thumb embedded in patagium, except tiny claw; pair of functional abdominal mammae; long, thick smoky to slate-gray dorsal fur, paler on venter;tail encased in uropatagium; muzzle blunt with oval or triangular nostrils; and large funnel-shaped ears. • 5-8 cm. View Figure

• Neotropical Region. View Figure

• Deserts into tropical deciduous and evergreen forests.

• 2 genera, 2 species, 2 taxa.

• 1 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Furipteridae

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