The Zoochat Photographic Guide to Bats

No, sorry, that photo was absolutely not usable.

 

Correct - it was deemed poor enough that it wasn't worth retaining.

 

The subspecies in Wisconsin is fuscus which is probably the same subspecies as in Giant Eland's photo (fuscus is the eastern subspecies in the USA, and hence also found in Virginia).

The species has a lot of subspecies because it is found throughout Central America and parts of northern South America, as well as on numerous islands in the Caribbean.

 

No, the current photo in the thread will suffice for that species thanks.

 

I have added in photos of four new species to the thread, all by @RatioTile from the Asa Zoo in Japan, bringing the number of represented bat species to 123 (out of a total number of 1285):


Greater Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum


East Asian Free-tailed Bat Tadarida insignis


Large Japanese (Bird-like) Noctule Nyctalus aviator


East Asian Particoloured Bat Vespertilio sinensis

 

I was playing around with photos in the thread earlier today, and realised that I had never posted a list of the members whose photos were used as I had done in my other mammal threads.

So here they are. There are currently 209 species from 101 genera depicted in the thread (out of about 1300 bat species in total), illustrated by 250 photos which have been taken by 44 members. Thirteen photos are of museum specimens rather than live animals.

[I'll keep this post updated whenever new photos are added: latest update 27 April 2024]


One photo:
@aardvark250
@amur leopard
@Arizona Docent
@AWP
@Azamat Shackleford
@birdsandbats
@Bonobo
@carl the birder
@chrisroughley
@Elephas Maximus
@Fishapod
@Gil
@Ituri
@Kudu21
@MagpieGoose
@Merintia
@Michal Sloviak
@Monty
@Newzooboy
@Orycteropus
@Semioptera
@Sun Wukong
@tdierikx
@TeaLovingDave
@Terry Thomas
@UngulateNerd92 (museum specimen)

Two photos:
@alexkant
@Tomek

Three photos:
@devilfish
@Sicarius

Four photos:
@lintworm
@RatioTile

Five or more photos:
@ralph - five photos
@ThylacineAlive - five photos
@vogelcommando - five photos (four being museum specimens)
@LaughingDove - six photos (one being a museum specimen)
@ronnienl - six photos
@WhistlingKite24 - six photos (five being museum specimens)
@Hix - eight photos
@Chlidonias - thirteen photos (two being museum specimens)
@Maguari - fifteen photos
@Giant Eland - sixty-five photos
@Najade - seventy-two photos

 

That's great - and a whole new genus for the thread as well!

 

I've added in three new photos, all by @Giant Eland:

sooty mustached bat (Pteronotus quadridens) - ZooChat (new species, genus, and family [Mormoopidae])

Waterhouse's leaf-nosed bat (Macrotus waterhousii) - ZooChat (new species and genus)

Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) - ZooChat (of an unrepresented subspecies, A. j. jamaicensis)


Only 1160 species to go!!

 

Yes I have seen those, but I can't tell which species they are. Both countries have almost 200 microchiropteran species and I don't have any keys or guides to their bat fauna.

 

A couple more species have been added to the thread.


The first is Large-eared (or Big-eared) Flying Fox Pteropus macrotis by @Hix which brings us up to 19 Pteropus species depicted.




The other new addition to the thread is a little embarrassing because I discovered today that I had somehow missed out an entire family of bats without realising! Nycteridae is only a small family - about sixteen species in total, and all in one genus - which is how I think it slipped by unnoticed. Fortunately there is one species in the gallery, the Common Slit-faced Bat Nycteris thebaica which is represented by three photos from Botswana by @Maguari (I have used two of the photos).



The post for that family is now here (#108): The Zoochat Photographic Guide to Bats