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The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. Family: Vespertilionidae. Subfamily: Myotinae. Genus: Myotis. Bechstein's bat, M. bechsteini NT [12] Greater mouse-eared bat, M. myotis LC [13]
This is a list of indigenous mammals of the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira in the North Atlantic ocean. Besides the mammals on the islands, the coastal waters are host to at least nine species of dolphins and ten species of migrating cetaceans. These are protected in the 430,000 km 2 Madeiran Marine Mammal Sanctuary. [1]
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List of mammals of Portugal; See also. Outline of Portugal This page was last edited on 22 May 2024, at 15:03 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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This is a list of the mammal species recorded in the Azores Islands, Portugal. [1] Except for marine mammals and two species of bats , the Azores were completely devoid of mammals prior to their discovery in the early 15th century.
In Portuguese, a peccary is called pecari, porco-do-mato, queixada, tajaçu, among other names like Cateto or Caititu. In Spanish, it is called javelina, jabalí (a word also used to describe wild boar), sajino, or pecarí. The word javelina derives from the Spanish word for "wild boar". [7] In French Guiana and Suriname, the animal is called ...
swimming, Cristalino River, Mato Grosso. The South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris), also commonly called the Brazilian tapir (from the Tupi tapi'ira [3]), the Amazonian tapir, the maned tapir, the lowland tapir, anta (Brazilian Portuguese), and la sachavaca (literally "bushcow", in mixed Quechua and Spanish), is one of the four recognized species in the tapir family (of the order ...