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  2. List of bats - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... There are an estimated 1,300 species of bat. [1] Suborder Yinpterochiroptera

  3. List of bats of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge, which crosses over Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, is the world's largest urban bat colony. Seventeen species of bats live in the Carlsbad Caverns National Park, including a large number of Mexican free-tailed bats. [1]

  4. Bat - Wikipedia

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    Depending on the bat species the presence of hair follicles and sweat glands will vary in the patagium. [65] This patagium is an extremely thin double layer of epidermis; these layers are separated by a connective tissue center, rich with collagen and elastic fibers. In some bat species sweat glands will be present in between this connective ...

  5. List of molossids - Wikipedia

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    Almost no molossids have population estimates, though the Mexican free-tailed bat is estimated to have a population of nearly 100 million, as one of the most numerous mammals in the world, [2] while seven species—the blunt-eared bat, equatorial dog-faced bat, Fijian mastiff bat, La Touche's free-tailed bat, Natal free-tailed bat, São Tomé ...

  6. List of fruit bats - Wikipedia

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    Population trends are based on the Red List of Threatened Species. The super-scripted "IUCN" tag is a link to that species's Red List of Threatened Species page. If a species has taxonomic synonyms, a list of these is provided in the "Scientific name" column, underneath the binomial name and author, based on the book Mammal Species of the World.

  7. List of bats by population - Wikipedia

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    Indiana bat: Myotis sodalis: 387 300 [31] NT [31] [31] Though numbers are large compared to other bats classified as endangered, this species is listed as such due to a >50% decline over the past decade. [31] Straw-coloured fruit bat: Eidolon helvum: 1.14 billion [32] = NT [33] Pallas's long-tongued bat: Glossophaga soricina: 1.03 billion [34 ...

  8. Big brown bat - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] The genus name, Eptesicus, is likely derived from the Greek words ptetikos ("able to fly") or petomai ("house flier"), and the species name "fuscus" is Latin in origin, meaning "brown". [8] The big brown bat is the type species for the genus Eptesicus, which was established in 1820 by French-American naturalist Constantine Samuel ...

  9. List of bats of Australia - Wikipedia

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    This is the list of bats of Australia, [1] [2] [3] a sub-list of the list of mammals of Australia. About 81 bat species are known to occur in Australia, Lord Howe and Christmas Island. [4] This list principally follows the authoritative references, the Australian Faunal Directory [5] and Churchill (2008). [3] Bats are all of the order Chiroptera.