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Kitti's hog-nosed bat is the smallest species of bat and arguably the world's smallest mammal by body length (the Etruscan shrew is regarded as the smallest by body mass). It has a reddish-brown or grey coat, with a distinctive pig-like snout. Colonies range greatly in size, with an average of 100 individuals per cave.
The Kitti's hog-nosed bat, Craseonycteris thonglongyai, the smallest species of bat and the smallest mammal in the world, was found by him in 1973.He died suddenly from a massive heart attack, so the formal description was written by his British colleague, John E. Hill, who named the species in honour of its discoverer.
Family Craseonycteridae (Kitti's hog-nosed bat) Family Hipposideridae (Old World leaf-nosed bats) Family Megadermatidae (false vampires) Family Pteropodidae (megabats) Family Rhinolophidae (horseshoe bats) Family Rhinopomatidae (mouse-tailed bats)
Bumblebee bat or Kitti's hog-nosed bat; Rhinolophoid bats Horseshoe bats (rhinolophids) Hollow-faced or slit-faced bats (nycterids) False vampires (megadermatids) Vesper bats or evening bats (vespertilionids) Molossoid bats Free-tailed bats (molossids) Pallid bats (antrozoids) Nataloid bats Funnel-eared bats (natalids) Sucker-footed bats ...
The smallest bat is Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), which is 29–34 mm (1 + 1 ⁄ 8 – 1 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) long with a 150-millimetre (6 in) wingspan and weighs 2–2.6 g (1 ⁄ 16 – 3 ⁄ 32 oz). [127] It is also arguably the smallest extant species of mammal, next to the Etruscan shrew. [128]
Family Craseonycteridae (bumblebee bat or Kitti's hog-nosed bat) Superfamily Rhinolophoidea. Family Rhinolophidae (horseshoe bats) Family Nycteridae (hollow-faced bats or slit-faced bats) Family Megadermatidae (false vampires) Superfamily Vespertilionoidea. Family Vespertilionidae (vesper bats or evening bats) Superfamily Molossoidea
Lesser short-nosed fruit bat ... Greater monkey-faced bat (Pteralopex flanneryi) ... bumblebee bat. Genus Craseonycteris [45] Kitti's hog-nosed bat ...
Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats. The vespertilionid family is the most diverse and widely distributed of bat families, specialised in many forms to occupy a range of habitats and ecological circumstances, and it is ...