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
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Narrow-winged Brown BatPhiletor brachypterus (Temminck, 1840) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dubious Trumpet-eared BatPhoniscus aerosus (Tomes, 1858) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gilded Groove-toothed BatPhoniscus atrox Miller, 1905 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Trumped-eared BatPhoniscus jagorii (Peters, 1866) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Golden-tipped BatPhoniscus papuensis (Dobson, 1878) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Japanese House BatPipistrellus abramus (Temminck, 1838) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Adams's PipistrellePipistrellus adamsi Kitchener, Caputi & Jones, 1986 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Aerial Pipistrelle BatPipistrellus aero Heller, 1912 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Angulate PipistrellePipistrellus angulatus (Peters, 1880) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black Gilded PipistrellePipistrellus ceylonicus (Kelaart, 1852) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Greater Papuan PipistrellePipistrellus collinus Thomas, 1920 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Coromandel PipistrellePipistrellus coromandra (Gray, 1838) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dhofar PipistrellePipistrellus dhofarensis Benda, Reiter, Uhrin & Varadínová, 2016 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Endo's PipistrellePipistrellus endoi Imaizumi, 1959 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hanak's Dwarf BatPipistrellus hanaki Hulva & Benda, 2004 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| African PipistrellePipistrellus hesperidus (Temminck, 1840) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Aellen's PipistrellePipistrellus inexspectatus Aellen, 1959 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Java PipistrellePipistrellus javanicus (Gray, 1838) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Great PipistrellePipistrellus kuhlii (Kuhl, 1817) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Madeira PipistrellePipistrellus maderensis (Dobson, 1878) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Minahassa PipistrellePipistrellus minahassae (A. Meyer, 1899) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dwarf Pipistrelle BatPipistrellus nanulus Thomas, 1904 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Nathusius's PipistrellePipistrellus nathusii (Keyserling & Blasius, 1839) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lesser Papuan PipistrellePipistrellus papuanus (Peters & Doria, 1881) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mount Popa PipistrellePipistrellus paterculus Thomas, 1915 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dar-es-Salaam PipistrellePipistrellus permixtus Aellen, 1957 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common PipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Soprano PipistrellePipistrellus pygmaeus (Leach, 1825) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Racey's PipistrellePipistrellus raceyi Bates, Ratrimomanarivo, Harrison & Goodman, 2006 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rustic PipistrellePipistrellus rusticus (Tomes, 1861) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bonin PipistrellePipistrellus sturdeei Thomas, 1915 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Indian Pygmy BatPipistrellus tenuis (Temminck, 1840) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Watts's PipistrellePipistrellus wattsi Kitchener, Caputi & Jones, 1986 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Koopman's PipistrellePipistrellus westralis Koopman, 1984 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brown Long-eared BatPlecotus auritus (Linnaeus, 1758) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gray Long-eared BatPlecotus austriacus (J. Fischer, 1829) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bale Long-eared BatPlecotus balensis Kruskop & Lavrenchenko, 2000 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gaisler's Big-eared BatPlecotus gaisleri Benda, Kiefer, Hanak & Veith, 2004 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Himalayan Long-eared BatPlecotus homochrous Hodgson, 1847 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Balkan Long-eared BatPlecotus kolombatovici Dulic, 1980 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kozlov's Long-eared BatPlecotus kozlovi Bobrinskii, 1926 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alpine Long-eared BatPlecotus macrobullaris Kuzyakin, 1965 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ognev's Long-eared BatPlecotus ognevi Kishida, 1927 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Japanese Long-eared BatPlecotus sacrimontis G. M. Allen, 1908 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sardinian Long-eared BatPlecotus sardus Mucedda, Kiefer, Pidinchedda & Veith, 2002 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Strelkov's Long-eared BatPlecotus strelkovi Spitzenberger, 2006 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Formosan Long-eared BatPlecotus taivanus Yoshiyuki, 1991 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Canary Long-eared BatPlecotus teneriffae Barrett-Hamilton, 1907 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Turkmen Long-eared BatPlecotus turkmenicus Strelkov, 1988 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ward's Long-eared BatPlecotus wardi Thomas, 1911 | 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.