Diclidurus
Genus of bats
| Diclidurus | |
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| Northern ghost bat (Diclidurus albus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Emballonuridae |
| Genus: | Diclidurus Wied-Neuwied, 1819 |
| Type species | |
| Diclidurus albus Wied-Neuwied, 1820 | |
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Diclidurus is a genus of bats whose common name is the ghost bats (not to be confused with the Australia Macroderma gigas). Diclidurus all inhabit tropical South America, and D. albus is also found in Mexico and Central America.[1][2] The fur of these insectivorous bats is white, sometimes with a slight greyish tinge, except D. isabella, which is partially pale brown.[1] The only other all-white bat in the New World is the Honduran white bat, but it is easily distinguished from Diclidurus by its relatively large nose leaf.[1] Diclidurus are poorly known and only infrequently captured, at least in part because they fly high above the ground or in the forest canopy (above the typical height of mist nets used by bat researchers).[3]
Species
- Northern ghost bat—D. albus
- Greater ghost bat—D. ingens
- Isabelle's ghost bat—D. isabella
- Lesser ghost bat—D. scutatus
References
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- ^ a b c Emmons, L.H (1997). Neotropical Rainforest Mammals. 2nd edition. ISBN 0-226-20719-6
- ^ Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Diclidurus", 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
- ^ Ferreira, A.P.; D.C. Melo; and A. Loures-Ribeiro (2013). Diclidurus albus Wied-Neuwied, 1820 (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae): First record of the species in the state of Paraíba, Brazil. Check List 9(4): 793–796.
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Extant species of family Emballonuridae
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Infraclass: Eutheria
- Superorder: Laurasiatheria
- Order: Chiroptera
- Ecuadorian sac-winged bat (B. infusca)
- Thomas's sac-winged bat (B. io)
- Gray sac-winged bat (B. plicata)
- Thomas's shaggy bat (C. centralis)
- Shaggy bat (C. maximiliani)
- African sheath-tailed bat (C. afra)
- Madagascar sheath-tailed bat (C. kibomalandy)
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat (C. seychellensis)
- Chestnut sac-winged bat (C. brevirostris)
- Short-eared bat (C. alecto)
(Ghost bats)
- Northern ghost bat (D. albus)
- Greater ghost bat (D. ingens)
- Isabelle's ghost bat (D. isabellus)
- Lesser ghost bat (D. scutatus)
- Small Asian sheath-tailed bat (E. alecto)
- Beccari's sheath-tailed bat (E. beccarii)
- Large-eared sheath-tailed bat (E. dianae)
- Greater sheath-tailed bat (E. furax)
- Lesser sheath-tailed bat (E. monticola)
- Raffray's sheath-tailed bat (E. raffrayana)
- Pacific sheath-tailed bat (E. semicaudata)
- Seri's sheath-tailed bat (E. serii)
- Dark sheath-tailed bat (M. nigrescens)
- Greater dog-like bat (P. kappleri)
- White-winged dog-like bat (P. leucoptera)
- Lesser dog-like bat (P. macrotis)
- Pale-winged dog-like bat (P. pallidoptera)
- Trinidad dog-like bat (P. trinitatis)
- Proboscis bat (R. naso)
- Yellow-bellied sheath-tailed bat (S. flaviventris)
- Papuan sheath-tailed bat (S. mixtus)
- Pel's pouched bat (S. peli)
- Naked-rumped pouched bat (S. saccolaimus)
- Antioquian sac-winged bat (S. antioquensis)
- Greater sac-winged bat (S. bilineata)
- Frosted sac-winged bat (S. canescens)
- Amazonian sac-winged bat (S. gymnura)
- Lesser sac-winged bat (S. leptura)
- Indonesian tomb bat (T. achates)
- Coastal sheath-tailed bat (T. australis)
- Common sheath-tailed bat (T. georgianus)
- Hamilton's tomb bat (T. hamiltoni)
- Hildegarde's tomb bat (T. hildegardeae)
- Hill's sheath-tailed bat (T. hilli)
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat (T. kapalgensis)
- Long-winged tomb bat (T. longimanus)
- Mauritian tomb bat (T. mauritianus)
- Black-bearded tomb bat (T. melanopogon)
- Naked-rumped tomb bat (T. nudiventris)
- Egyptian tomb bat (T. perforatus)
- Theobald's tomb bat (T. theobaldi)
- Troughton's sheath-tailed bat (T. troughtoni)
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