A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Vespertilionidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| North American Hoary BatAeorestes cinereus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1796) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| South American Hoary BatAeorestes villosissimus (E. Geoffroy, 1806) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Banana BatAfronycteris nanus (Peters, 1852) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pallid BatAntrozous pallidus (LeConte, 1856) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-gilded PipistrelleArielulus circumdatus (Temminck, 1840) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Social PipistrelleArielulus societatis (Hill, 1972) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| European BarbastelleBarbastella barbastellus (Schreber, 1774) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Beijing BarbastelleBarbastella beijingensis Zhang, Han, Jones, Lin, Zhang, Zhu, Huang & Zhang, 2007 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Japanese BarbastelleBarbastella pacifica Kruskop, Kawai & Tiunov, 2019 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Van Gelder's BatBauerus dubiaquercus (Van Gelder, 1959) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Yok Don Helmeted BatCassistrellus yokdonensis Ruedi, Eger, Lim & Csorba, 2017 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chocolate Lobe-lipped BatChalinolobus morio (Gray, 1841) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Long-tailed BatChalinolobus tuberculatus (Forster, 1844) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mexican Big-eared BatCorynorhinus mexicanus G. M. Allen, 1916 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Eastern Big-eared BatCorynorhinus rafinesquii (Lesson, 1827) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cuban Yellow BatDasypterus insularis (Hall & Jones, 1961) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Northern Yellow BatDasypterus intermedius (H. Allen, 1862) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Anatolian SerotineEptesicus (Cnephaeus) anatolicus Felten, 1971 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gobi Big Brown BatEptesicus (Cnephaeus) gobiensis Bobrinskii, 1926 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Isabelle's SerotineEptesicus (Cnephaeus) isabellinus (Temminck, 1840) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Northern BatEptesicus (Cnephaeus) nilssonii (Keyserling & Blasius, 1839) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mouse-like SerotineEptesicus (Cnephaeus) pachyomus (Tomes, 1857) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Thick-eared BatEptesicus (Cnephaeus) pachyotis (Dobson, 1871) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lagos SerotineEptesicus (Cnephaeus) platyops (Thomas, 1901) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Little Black SerotineEptesicus (Eptesicus) andinus J. A. Allen, 1914 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brazilian Brown BatEptesicus (Eptesicus) brasiliensis (Desmarest, 1819) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Diminutive SerotineEptesicus (Eptesicus) diminutus Osgood, 1915 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Argentine Brown BatEptesicus (Eptesicus) furinalis (d'Orbigny, 1847) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Big Brown BatEptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1796) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Guadeloupe SerotineEptesicus (Eptesicus) guadeloupensis Genoways & Baker, 1975 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Taddei's SerotineEptesicus (Eptesicus) taddeii Miranda, Bernardi & Passos, 2006 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ulapes SerotineEptesicus (Eptesicus) ulapesensis Sánchez, Montani, Tomasco, Díaz & Barquez, 2019 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Flower's SerotineEptesicus (Rhinopterus) floweri (de Winton, 1901) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pinto BatEuderma maculatum (J. A. Allen, 1891) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Disk-footed BatEudiscopus denticulus (Osgood, 1932) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mackenzie's False PipistrelleFalsistrellus mackenziei Kitchener, Caputi & Jones, 1986 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Eastern False PipistrelleFalsistrellus tasmaniensis (Gould, 1858) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Allen's striped batGlauconycteris alboguttata J. A. Allen, 1917 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Butterfly BatGlauconycteris argentata (Dobson, 1875) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blackish Butterfly BatGlauconycteris atra Hassanin et al., 2018 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Beatrix Butterfly BatGlauconycteris beatrix Thomas, 1901 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Curry's Butterfly BatGlauconycteris curryae Eger & Schlitter, 2001 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bibundi Butterfly BatGlauconycteris egeria Thomas, 1913 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Glen's Butterfly BatGlauconycteris gleni Peterson & Smith, 1973 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Allen's Spotted BatGlauconycteris humeralis J. A. Allen, 1917 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kenyacola Butterfly BatGlauconycteris kenyacola Peterson, 1982 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Machado's Butterfly BatGlauconycteris machadoi Hayman, 1963 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Abo Butterfly BatGlauconycteris poensis (Gray, 1842) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Badger BatGlauconycteris superba Hayman, 1939 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Leaf-winged BatGlauconycteris variegata (Tomes, 1861) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.