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  2. Kitti's hog-nosed bat - Wikipedia

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    Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), also known as the bumblebee bat, is a near-threatened species of bat and the only extant member of the family Craseonycteridae. It occurs in western Thailand and southeast Myanmar , where it occupies limestone caves along rivers.

  3. Kitti Thonglongya - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Bat - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Yinpterochiroptera - Wikipedia

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    The most recent common ancestor of Yinpterochiroptera, corresponding to the split between Rhinolophoidea and Pteropodidae (Old World Fruit bats), is estimated to have occurred 60 million years ago. [4] The first appearance of the term Yinpterochiroptera was in 2001, in an article by Mark Springer and colleagues. [5]

  6. List of bats - Wikipedia

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    Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) Rhinopomatidae ... The Old World leaf-nosed bats. Genus Anthops [45] Flower-faced bat (Anthops ornatus)

  7. Microbat - Wikipedia

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    Microbats constitute the suborder Microchiroptera within the order Chiroptera ().Bats have long been differentiated into Megachiroptera (megabats) and Microchiroptera, based on their size, the use of echolocation by the Microchiroptera and other features; molecular evidence suggests a somewhat different subdivision, as the microbats have been shown to be a paraphyletic group.

  8. List of mammal genera - Wikipedia

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    Family Craseonycteridae – Kitti's hog-nosed bat (also known as the bumblebee bat) Genus Craseonycteris; Family Hipposideridae – Old World leaf-nosed bats Genus Anthops – flower-faced bat; Genus Asellia; Genus Aselliscus – 3 trident bat species; Genus Coelops – tailless leaf-nosed bats; Genus Hipposideros – roundleaf bats; Genus ...

  9. Vespertilionidae - Wikipedia

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    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 ...