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THE NATURAL & IMAGINED WORLDAn illustrated compendium
THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE

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

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SpeciesClassificationSource status
North American Hoary BatAeorestes cinereus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1796)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
South American Hoary BatAeorestes villosissimus (E. Geoffroy, 1806)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Banana BatAfronycteris nanus (Peters, 1852)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Pallid BatAntrozous pallidus (LeConte, 1856)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Black-gilded PipistrelleArielulus circumdatus (Temminck, 1840)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Social PipistrelleArielulus societatis (Hill, 1972)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
European BarbastelleBarbastella barbastellus (Schreber, 1774)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Beijing BarbastelleBarbastella beijingensis Zhang, Han, Jones, Lin, Zhang, Zhu, Huang & Zhang, 2007VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Japanese BarbastelleBarbastella pacifica Kruskop, Kawai & Tiunov, 2019VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Van Gelder's BatBauerus dubiaquercus (Van Gelder, 1959)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Yok Don Helmeted BatCassistrellus yokdonensis Ruedi, Eger, Lim & Csorba, 2017VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Chocolate Lobe-lipped BatChalinolobus morio (Gray, 1841)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Long-tailed BatChalinolobus tuberculatus (Forster, 1844)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Mexican Big-eared BatCorynorhinus mexicanus G. M. Allen, 1916VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Eastern Big-eared BatCorynorhinus rafinesquii (Lesson, 1827)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Cuban Yellow BatDasypterus insularis (Hall & Jones, 1961)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Northern Yellow BatDasypterus intermedius (H. Allen, 1862)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Anatolian SerotineEptesicus (Cnephaeus) anatolicus Felten, 1971VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Gobi Big Brown BatEptesicus (Cnephaeus) gobiensis Bobrinskii, 1926VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Isabelle's SerotineEptesicus (Cnephaeus) isabellinus (Temminck, 1840)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Northern BatEptesicus (Cnephaeus) nilssonii (Keyserling & Blasius, 1839)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Mouse-like SerotineEptesicus (Cnephaeus) pachyomus (Tomes, 1857)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Thick-eared BatEptesicus (Cnephaeus) pachyotis (Dobson, 1871)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Lagos SerotineEptesicus (Cnephaeus) platyops (Thomas, 1901)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Little Black SerotineEptesicus (Eptesicus) andinus J. A. Allen, 1914VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Brazilian Brown BatEptesicus (Eptesicus) brasiliensis (Desmarest, 1819)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Diminutive SerotineEptesicus (Eptesicus) diminutus Osgood, 1915VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Argentine Brown BatEptesicus (Eptesicus) furinalis (d'Orbigny, 1847)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Big Brown BatEptesicus (Eptesicus) fuscus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1796)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Guadeloupe SerotineEptesicus (Eptesicus) guadeloupensis Genoways & Baker, 1975VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Taddei's SerotineEptesicus (Eptesicus) taddeii Miranda, Bernardi & Passos, 2006VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Ulapes SerotineEptesicus (Eptesicus) ulapesensis Sánchez, Montani, Tomasco, Díaz & Barquez, 2019VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Flower's SerotineEptesicus (Rhinopterus) floweri (de Winton, 1901)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Pinto BatEuderma maculatum (J. A. Allen, 1891)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Disk-footed BatEudiscopus denticulus (Osgood, 1932)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Mackenzie's False PipistrelleFalsistrellus mackenziei Kitchener, Caputi & Jones, 1986VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Eastern False PipistrelleFalsistrellus tasmaniensis (Gould, 1858)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Allen's striped batGlauconycteris alboguttata J. A. Allen, 1917VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Common Butterfly BatGlauconycteris argentata (Dobson, 1875)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Blackish Butterfly BatGlauconycteris atra Hassanin et al., 2018VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Beatrix Butterfly BatGlauconycteris beatrix Thomas, 1901VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Curry's Butterfly BatGlauconycteris curryae Eger & Schlitter, 2001VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Bibundi Butterfly BatGlauconycteris egeria Thomas, 1913VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Glen's Butterfly BatGlauconycteris gleni Peterson & Smith, 1973VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Allen's Spotted BatGlauconycteris humeralis J. A. Allen, 1917VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Kenyacola Butterfly BatGlauconycteris kenyacola Peterson, 1982VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Machado's Butterfly BatGlauconycteris machadoi Hayman, 1963VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Abo Butterfly BatGlauconycteris poensis (Gray, 1842)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Badger BatGlauconycteris superba Hayman, 1939VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Leaf-winged BatGlauconycteris variegata (Tomes, 1861)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
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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

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