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  2. Kitti's hog-nosed bat - Wikipedia

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    Kitti's hog-nosed bat is small at about 29 to 33 mm (1.1 to 1.3 in) in length and 2 g (0.071 oz) in mass, [2] [3] hence the common name of "bumblebee bat". It is the smallest species of bat and may be the world's smallest mammal, depending on how size is defined.

  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 22.6 g (1 ⁄ 16 – 3 ⁄ 32 oz). [127] It is also arguably the smallest extant species of mammal, next to the Etruscan shrew. [128]

  5. Smallest organisms - Wikipedia

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    The Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), also known as the bumblebee bat, from Thailand and Myanmar [80] is the smallest mammal, at 29–33 millimetres (1.1–1.3 in) in length and 2 grams (0.071 oz) in weight.

  6. Microbat - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. Oldest-known bat skeletons shed light on evolution of flying ...

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    The two oldest-known fossil skeletons of bats, unearthed in southwestern Wyoming and dating to at least 52 million years ago, are providing insight into the early evolution of these flying mammals ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Yinpterochiroptera - Wikipedia

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    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)