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Chalinolobus

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Chalinolobus
Chocolate wattled bat (Chalinolobus morio)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Tribe: Vespertilionini
Genus: Chalinolobus
Peters, 1866
Type species
Vespertilio tuberculatus
Gray, 1843

Chalinolobus is a genus of bats, commonly known as pied, wattled, or long-tailed bats. They have fleshy lobes at the bottom edge of their ears and on their lower lips. The bats otherwise classified in the genus Glauconycteris are included in Chalinolobus by some zoologists.

Species

References

  • Churchill, Sue (1998). Australian Bats. New Holland Publishers.

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