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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.
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.
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). [126] It is also arguably the smallest extant species of mammal, next to the Etruscan shrew. [127]
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.
Craseonycteris thonglongyai. bumblebee bat. Genus Craseonycteris [45] Kitti's hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) Rhinopomatidae. Rhinopoma microphyllum.
This is a list of bat species by global population.While numbers are estimates, they have been made by the experts in their fields. For more information on how these estimates were ascertained, see Wikipedia's articles on population biology and population ecology.
The short-haired bumblebee was one of four species of bumblebee introduced into New Zealand from the United Kingdom between 1885 and 1906 for pollination of red clover.In New Zealand, it is the rarest of the four species, with small numbers at a few locations in inland South Island. [3]
Craseonycteris thonglongyai Hill, 1974: Karst near rivers; world's smallest bat NT: Family Molossidae: free-tailed bats: Northern free-tailed bat: Chaerephon johorensis Dobson, 1873: Forest VU: Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat: Chaerephon plicatus Buchanan, 1800: Caves, rocky areas, savanna & forests LC Unknown: Hairless bat: Cheiromeles ...