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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.
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 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.
All species are similar in that they lack upper incisors, though not all species have the same dental formulae. [2] The lesser false vampire bat and greater false vampire bat have a dental formula of 0.1.2.3 2.1.2.3 × 2 = 28, while the ghost bat, heart-nosed bat, Thongaree's disc-nosed bat, and yellow-winged bat have a dental formula of 0.1.1 ...
The implication that bats are diphyletic has been fiercely disputed by many zoologists, not only based on the unlikelihood that wings would have evolved twice in mammals, but also on biochemical studies of molecular evolution, which indicate that bats are monophyletic. [13] [14] However, other studies have disputed the validity of these ...
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
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 ...
The term Yinpterochiroptera is constructed from the words Pteropodidae (the family of megabats) and Yinochiroptera (a term proposed in 1984 by Karl F. Koopman to refer to certain families of microbats [2]). Recent studies using transcriptome data have found strong support for the Yinpterochiroptera-Yangochiroptera classification system. [3]