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  1. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    Kerivoula
    At least 22 species, of which just two are represented in the Zoochat galleries (with one only by a taxidermy specimen).


    Hardwicke's or Common Woolly Bat Kerivoula hardwickii
    Monotypic, although it is probably a species-complex. It has a wide distribution and subspecies have been recognised in the past.


    Photo by @ralph in the wild, Thailand (demonstrating a typical roost-site of a hollow bamboo stem)

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    Common woolly bat (Kerivoula hardwickii) - ZooChat


    Clear-winged Woolly Bat Kerivoula pellucida
    Monotypic


    Photo by @vogelcommando of a taxidermy specimen (although taxidermy bats are very often mislabeled so the identification should be considered "unconfirmed").

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    Specimen Clear-winged woolly bat - Kerivoula pellucida | ZooChat



    There are at least 20 other species in this genus (although probably substantially more than 20):

    Tanzanian Woolly Bat Kerivoula africana
    St. Aignan's Woolly Bat Kerivoula agnella
    Damara Woolly Bat Kerivoula argentata
    Copper Woolly Bat Kerivoula cuprosa
    Ethiopian Woolly Bat Kerivoula eriophora
    Flores Woolly Bat Kerivoula flora
    Small Woolly Bat Kerivoula intermedia
    Kachin Woolly Bat Kerivoula kachinensis
    Krau Woolly Bat Kerivoula krauensis
    Lesser Woolly Bat Kerivoula lanosa
    Lenis Woolly Bat Kerivoula lenis
    Least Woolly Bat Kerivoula minuta
    Fly River Woolly Bat Kerivoula muscina
    Bismarck's Woolly Bat Kerivoula myrella
    Papillose Woolly Bat Kerivoula papillosa
    Spurrell's Woolly Bat Kerivoula phalaena
    Painted Bat Kerivoula picta
    Smith's Woolly Bat Kerivoula smithii
    Titania's Woolly Bat Kerivoula titania
    Whitehead's Woolly Bat Kerivoula whiteheadi
     
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    Phoniscus
    Four species, none of which are represented in the Zoochat galleries.


    Dubious Trumpet-eared Bat Phoniscus aerosa

    Groove-toothed Bat Phoniscus atrox

    Common or Peters' Trumpet-eared Bat Phoniscus jagorii

    Golden-tipped Bat Phoniscus papuensis
     
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    Giant Eland Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    @Chlidonias one of my current goals is to gather up all of my best bat photos (to submit for Lynx's final volume). Once I do I'll be happy to add new ones here- the most of which will come from a multi week trip to Costa Rica with over 20 species between Reserva biológica Tirimbina, Damas Caves outside of the Manuel Antonio Park, and The Bat Jungle Zoo that had around 9-10 species by itself.
     
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    Family MINIOPTERIDAE
    Bent-winged or Long-fingered Bats


    About thirty species in one genus (Miniopterus), of which two species are represented in the Zoochat galleries.



    Least Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus minor
    Two subspecies currently recognised: minor and occidentalis. Formerly treated as a dumping ground for all small Miniopterus in Africa, with multiple species having since been split out as separate species. Probably still a species-complex in the remaining populations.


    Photo by @ThylacineAlive in the wild, Kenya (subspecies minor)

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    https://www.zoochat.com/community/media/least-long-fingered-bats.675628/#media


    Schreibers' Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus schreibersii
    Probably monotypic. This species was formerly considered to have a distribution across almost the entire Old World from Europe to Australia, however all the former subspecies have been split off as separate species leaving M. schreibersii now restricted to southern and eastern Europe to the eastern end of the Black Sea and the eastern end of the Mediterranean, and in northern Africa.


    Photo by @Najade of a wild animal, Romania (this country coincidentally was also the type location for the species when it was first described)

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    Schreibers’ Bat (Miniopterus schreibersii) - ZooChat



    The other species in the genus are as below (but note that the taxonomy is always changing):


    Aellen's Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus aelleni
    African Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus africanus
    Madagascan Montane Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus ambohitrensis
    Little Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus australis
    North Madagascan Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus brachytragos
    Eger's Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus egeri
    Lesser Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus fraterculus
    Eastern Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus fuliginosus
    Japanese Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus fuscus
    Glen's Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus gleni
    Griffiths' Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus griffithsi
    Griveaud's Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus griveaudi
    Greater Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus inflatus
    Small Melanesian Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus macrocneme
    Maghreb Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus maghrebensis
    Large Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus magnater
    Mahafaly Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus mahafaliensis
    Major's Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus majori
    Manavi Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus manavi
    Intermediate Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus medius
    Mozambique Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus mossambicus
    Natal Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus natalensis
    Newton's Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus newtoni
    Northern Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus orianae
    Philippine Long-fingered Bat Minopterus paululus
    Peterson's Long-fingered Bat Miniopterus petersoni
    Small Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus pusillus
    Loyalty Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus robustior
    Shortridge's Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus shortridgei
    Sororcula Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus sororculus
    Great Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus tristis
     
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  5. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    And, with that, the Zoochat Photographic Guide To Bats is complete (at least as far as currently-uploaded photos go).

    As noted in post numbers one and two of the thread, there is a wide range of opinion on how many bat species there are, but I have listed about 1285 bat species in total, in 214 genera. Of those, just 95 species in 55 genera are currently depicted on this site. It's not a great percentage but bats are rarely zoo subjects, and wild bats are obviously difficult to photograph.

    There's probably a good chance I missed a few species in the galleries due to the difficulties of finding photos unless they have the scientific names attached. Also, as mentioned by @Giant Eland a couple of posts up, there will hopefully be photos of more species to come in the future.
     
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    Just added a number of bat-focused photos to Costa Rica (Wild & Bat Jungle), Fort Worth Zoo (Texas) and India (Wild). Should add photos to nice number of new species :D
     
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    Also just added my best photos from the 3 trips I've taken to Omaha (2006, 2010, 2013) including some bats and rodents ;)
     
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    I'll get round to adding all these in at some point when I have a bit more time. I'll post here once I've done that.
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    I have now added in some of these photos to the thread, which gave six new species, five new genera, and one new family (Noctilionidae).

    These were:

    Greater Bulldog Bat Noctilio leporinus
    Orange Nectar Bat Lonchophylla robusta
    Great Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus lituratus
    Peter's Tent-making Bat Uroderma bilobatum
    Greater Dog-like Bat Peropteryx kappleri
    Pallid Bat Antrozous pallidus

    Various other photos were used to replace or add to existing photos.

    I also added in a new species from @LaughingDove, the Trefoil Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus trifoliatus.


    The total for the thread is now 101 species in 60 genera (about 7.8% of total bat species, and about 28% of the total genera).
     
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    Giant Eland Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Be sure to check photos I added to:
    Bat Jungle (Costa Rica)
    Tirimbina Biological Reserve (Costa Rica)
    Bahamas (wild)
    India (wild)


    I think there are additional species, namely my absolute favorite: Ectophylla alba.

    If it helps here's my list of bat species photographed- maybe you can tell me if any of these are unrepresented or poorly represented.

    Bats:


    1. (Anoura geoffroyi) Geoffroy’s tailless bat

    2. (Antrozous pallidus) Pallid Bat

    3. (Artibeus jamaicensis) Jamaican fruit bat

    4. (Artibeus lituratus) Great fruit-eating bat

    5. (Carollia castanea) Chestnut short-tailed bat

    6. (Carollia perspicillata) Seba’s short-tailed Bat

    7. (Carollia sowelli) Sowell’s short-tailed bat

    8. (Cynopterus brachyotis) Lesser dog-faced fruit bat

    9. (Dermanura toltecus) Toltec fruit-eating bat

    10. (Dermanura watsoni) Thomas’s fruit-eating bat

    11. (Desmodus rotundus) Common vampire bat

    12. (Diaemus youngi) White-winged vampire bat

    13. (Ectophylla alba) Honduran white bat

    14. (Eidolon helvum) Straw-coloured fruit bat

    15. (Epomophorus gambianus) Gambian epauletted bat

    16. (Epomophorus wahlbergi) Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat?

    17. (Eptesicus fuscus) big brown bat

    18. (Erophylla sezekorni) buffy flower bat

    19. (Glossophaga commissarisi) Commissaris’s long-tongued bat

    20. (Glossophaga soricina) Pallas' long-tongued bat

    21. (Hypsignathus monstrosus) Hammerhead bat

    22. (Lasionycteris noctivagans) silver-haired bat

    23. (Leptonycteris curasoae) Southern long-nosed bat

    24. (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae) Lesser Long-nosed Bat

    25. (Lonchophylla robusta) Orange nectar bat

    26. (Macroderma gigas) Ghost bat

    27. (Megaerma lyra) Indian False Vampire

    28. (Mesophylla macconnelli) MacConnell’s bat

    29. (Myotis albescens) Silver-tipped myotis

    30. (Myotis nigricans) Black myotis

    31. (Noctilio leporinus) Greater bulldog bat

    32. (Nycticeius humeralis) evening bat

    33. (Peropteryx kappleri) Greater dog-like bat

    34. (Phyllostomus discolor) Pale spear-nosed bat

    35. (Phyllostomus hastatus) Greater spear-nosed bat

    36. (Pipistrellus abramus) Japanese pipistrelle

    37. (Platyrrhinus vittatus) Greater broad-nosed bat

    38. (Plecotus auritus) Brown long-eared bat

    39. (Pteropus alecto) Black Flying Fox

    40. (Pteropus conspicillatus) Spectacled flying fox

    41. (Pteropus dasymallus) Ryukyu fruit bat

    42. (Pteropus giganteus) Indian flying fox

    43. (Pteropus hypomelanus) Vietnamese small flying fox

    44. (Pteropus livingstonii) Comoro flying fox

    45. (Pteropus lylei) Lyle’s flying fox

    46. (Pteropus poliocephalus) Grey-headed flying fox

    47. (Pteropus pumilus) Little Golden-mantled Flying Fox

    48. (Pteropus rodricensis) Rodrigues flying fox

    49. (Pteropus scapulatus) Little red flying fox

    50. (Pteropus vampyrus) Large flying fox

    51. (Rhynchonycteris naso) proboscis bat

    52. (Rousettus aegyptiacus) Egyptian fruit bat

    53. (Rousettus lanosus) Long-haired Rousette

    54. (Rousettus leschenaultia) Leschenault’s Rousette

    55. (Saccopteryx bilineata) Greater sac-winged bat

    56. (Saccopteryx leptura) Lesser sac-winged bat

    57. (Tadarida brasiliensis) Mexican free-tailed bat

    58. (Thoopterus nigrescens) Swift fruit bat

    59. (Uroderma bilobatum) Tent-making bat

    60. (Vespertilio murinus) Parti-colored bat
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    Yes, I had missed out Tirimbina and the Bahamas. I'll come back to the list above when I have added in the species from those two places.
     
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    Added two bats to the Australian Wildlife gallery
     
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    I have added in seven new species which I'd missed from Tirimbica (Costa Rica) and The Bahamas, by @Giant Eland as follows:

    Lesser Sac-winged Bat Saccopteryx leptura
    Buffy Flower Bat Erophylla sezekorni (new genus)
    Honduran White Bat Ectophylla alba (new genus)
    MacConnell's Bat Mesophylla macconnelli (new genus)
    Thomas' Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus (Dermanura) watsoni
    Chestnut Short-tailed Fruit Bat Carollia castanea
    Black Mouse-eared Bat Myotis nigricans

    And also a new species from @Najade with the Lesser Long-eared Bat Nyctophilus geoffroyi (I didn't add in the Southern Bentwing Bat photo because it doesn't show the bats well enough).


    Total for the thread is now 109 species in 63 genera.
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    From the list here are the ones which are not represented or for which you may have better photos:


    21. (Hypsignathus monstrosus) Hammerhead bat
    The only photo in the galleries is this one: Hammer-headed fruit bat/ Hypsignathus monstrosus | ZooChat


    23. (Leptonycteris curasoae) Southern long-nosed bat
    This species isn't represented at all.


    58. (Thoopterus nigrescens) Swift fruit bat
    The only photo in the galleries is this one: Swift Fruit Bat at Tierpark Berlin, 01/09/11 | ZooChat



    27. (Megaerma lyra) Indian False Vampire
    For this one, do you mean the photos in the Indian Wildlife gallery labelled as Lesser False Vampires Megaderma spasma? I'm not sure which species they are, but they are horseshoe bats.
     
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    I have some bad photos of this species I could potentially upload.
     
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    Oo taken where??
     
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    In the wild at Heckrodt Wetland Reserve, Menasha, WI.
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    You can upload them and I'll take a look. Depending on how bad they are they may be used, or may be deleted again. What was your identification process for them?
     
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    Uh, it was orange. It's the only orange bat species in the area.