Peropteryx
Appearance
Peropteryx | |
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Peropteryx kappleri | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Emballonuridae |
Genus: | Peropteryx Peters, 1867 |
Type species | |
Vespertilio caninus Wied-Newied, 1821
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Species | |
Peropteryx kappleri |
Peropteryx is a genus of 5 species of bat in the family Emballonuridae,[1]
namely:
- Greater dog-like bat (Peropteryx kappleri)
- White-winged dog-like bat (Peropteryx leucoptera)
- Lesser dog-like bat (Peropteryx macrotis)
- Pale-winged dog-like bat (Peropteryx pallidoptera) [2]
- Trinidad dog-like bat (Peropteryx trinitatis)
References
[edit]- ^ Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Chiroptera", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 312–529, ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0, retrieved 28 September 2009
- ^ Lim, Burton K.; Engstrom, Mark D.; Reid, Fiona A.; Simmons, Nancy B.; Voss, Robert S.; Fleck, David W. (2010). "A New Species of Peropteryx (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae) from Western Amazonia with Comments on Phylogenetic Relationships within the Genus" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (3686): 1–20. doi:10.1206/691.1. hdl:2246/6070. S2CID 53674551.