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 |
|---|---|---|
| Indochinese Thick-thumbed BatGlischropus bucephalus Csorba, 2011 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Javan Thick-thumbed BatGlischropus javanus Chasen, 1939 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Thick-thumbed BatGlischropus tylopus (Dobson, 1875) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hairy-winged BatHarpiocephalus harpia (Temminck, 1840) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gray Tube-nosed BatHarpiola grisea (Peters, 1872) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Doria's False SerotineHesperoptenus (Hesperoptenus) doriae (Peters, 1868) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blanford's BatHesperoptenus (Milithronycteris) blanfordi (Dobson, 1877) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gaskell's False SerotineHesperoptenus (Milithronycteris) gaskelli Hill, 1983 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tickell's BatHesperoptenus (Milithronycteris) tickelli (Blyth, 1851) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Large False SerotineHesperoptenus (Milithronycteris) tomesi Thomas, 1905 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Strange Big-eared Brown BatHistiotus alienus Thomas, 1916 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Humboldt's Big-eared Brown BatHistiotus humboldti Handley, 1996 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Thomas's Big-eared Brown BatHistiotus laephotis Thomas, 1916 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Big-eared Brown BatHistiotus macrotus (Poeppig, 1835) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Southern Big-eared Brown BatHistiotus magellanicus (Philippi, 1866) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Small Big-eared Brown BatHistiotus montanus (Philippi & Landbeck, 1861) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tropical Big-eared Brown BatHistiotus velatus (I. Geoffroy, 1824) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chocolate PipistrelleHypsugo affinis (Dobson, 1871) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alashanian PipistrelleHypsugo alaschanicus (Bobrinskii, 1926) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Arabian PipistrelleHypsugo arabicus (Harrison, 1979) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desert PipistrelleHypsugo ariel (Thomas, 1904) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cadorna's PipistrelleHypsugo cadornae (Thomas, 1916) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brown PipistrelleHypsugo imbricatus (Horsfield, 1824) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red-brown PipistrelleHypsugo kitcheneri (Thomas, 1915) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lanza's PipistrelleHypsugo lanzai Benda, Al-Jumaily, Reiter & Nasher, 2011 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Burma pipistrelleHypsugo lophurus (Thomas, 1915) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Big-eared PipistrelleHypsugo macrotis (Temminck, 1840) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Least Pipistrelle BatHypsugo musciculus (Thomas, 1913) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chinese PipistrelleHypsugo pulveratus (Peters, 1871) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Savi's PipistrelleHypsugo savii (Bonaparte, 1837) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Vordermann's PipistrelleHypsugo vordermanni (Jentink, 1890) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Great Evening BatIa io Thomas, 1902 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tanzanian Woolly BatKerivoula africana Dobson, 1878 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Damara Woolly BatKerivoula argentata Tomes, 1861 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kerivoula bicolor Thomas, 1904 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Copper Woolly BatKerivoula cuprosa Thomas, 1912 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Indochinese Woolly BatKerivoula dongduongana Tu et al., 2018 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ethiopian Woolly BatKerivoula eriophora (Heuglin, 1877) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Flores Woolly BatKerivoula flora Thomas, 1914 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dark Woolly BatKerivoula furva Kuo, Soisook, Ho, Csorba, Wang & Rossiter, 2017 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Woolly BatKerivoula hardwickii (Horsfield, 1824) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Small Woolly BatKerivoula intermedia Hill & Francis, 1984 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kachin Woolly BatKerivoula kachinensis Bates, Struebig, Rossiter, Kingston, Sai Sein Lin Oo & Mya Mya, 2004 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lesser Woolly BatKerivoula lanosa (A. Smith, 1847) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lenis Woolly BatKerivoula lenis Thomas, 1916 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Least Woolly BatKerivoula minuta Miller, 1898 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Fly River Woolly BatKerivoula muscina Tate, 1941 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bismarck Woolly BatKerivoula myrella Thomas, 1914 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Papillose Woolly BatKerivoula papillosa (Temminck, 1840) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Clear-winged Woolly BatKerivoula pellucida (Waterhouse, 1845) | 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.