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Serotine
Serotine，Eptesicus serotinus
Large brown bats live in a variety of habitats, including caves, rock crevices, eaves of houses, and gaps in doors, Windows, and w···
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Bats, generally referred to as Chiroptera, are the only truly flying mammals. In addition to the characteristics of most mammals, they possess a range of morphological adaptations for flight. Bats can be divided into two suborders, with a total of 16 families, 185 genera, and 962 species worldwide. China has approximately 7 families, 30 genera, and 120 species.
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Vespertilio sinensis
Vespertilio sinensis
Eastern bats belong to human animals, often inhabit all kinds of artificial buildings, such as houses or building roof frames, cei···
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Miniopterus fuliginosus
Big Bat, Big Night bat,Ia io
Southern bats live in tall caves, with 3-5 or more than 10 individuals lurking high on the cave walls, mostly hanging as a single ···
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Pipistrellus pulveratus
Pipistrellus pulveratus，Hypsugo pulveratus
It is a carnivorous bat that hunts in waters or near villages, feeding on insects such as mosquitoes and moths. The population is ···
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Pipistrellus circumdatus
Pipistrellus circumdatus，Arielulus circumdatus
Pipistrellus has previously been classified as <Pipistrellus> by Heller & Volleth (1984) as <P. societatis>, Howev···
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CHIROPTERA
CHIROPTERA，Pipistrellus minus
Pipistrella is also known as the Jurassic wing. Wang Yingxiang (2003) identified Pipistrellus mimus as a separate species, but Smi···
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Pipistrellus abramus
Pipistrellus abramus
The common pipistrella is a very common type of bat that lives in clusters and catches insects for food. In groups of 5 to 20, the···
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Pipistrellus coromandra
Pipistrellus coromandra
Pipistrella indiensis is a small to medium sized Pipistrella. It lives in mountains, plains and other places, appears between buil···
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Pipistrellus abramus
Pipistrellus abramus
The East Asian pipistrella, also known as the Japanese Pipistrella, is the most common species in the evening sky in urban and rur···
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Myotis siligorensis
Myotis siligorensis
The size of the tall cranial Myotis bat in Vietnam varies greatly, so the subspecies of this species remains to be studied. The Ch···
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Myotis rufoniger
Myotis rufoniger
Myotis Watasei feeds on insects, especially mosquitoes, and is beneficial to humans. Csorba et al. (2014) classified the goatley-e···
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Myotis ricketti
Myotis ricketti
Big-footed mouse-eared bats have attracted much attention because of their special habit of catching fish on the surface for food.···
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Myotis petax
Myotis petax
They often live in groups in caves, fly in forest glades, and also fly above water, suggesting that they may trawl the water for f···
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Myotis muricola
Myotis muricola
Mountain Myotis bats often live in damp and ventilated caves or tunnels, but also have been reported to live in tree holes and eav···
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Myotis macrodactylus
Myotis macrodactylus
The Great toed Myotis bats inhabit the damp cave walls of the northeast in summer and migrate to warmer areas in winter. The popul···
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Myotis longipes
Myotis longipes
Myotis capaccinii was once classified as a subspecies of Myotis capaccinii. However, Ellerman et al. (1951) separate it as a speci···
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Myotis petax
Myotis petax
East Asian water myoets often live in groups in caves, fly in forest glades, and also fly above water, suggesting that they may tr···
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Myotis laniger
Myotis laniger
The South China Water Myotis bat is a very common bat with a wide distribution range. It is mostly collected from caves, including···
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Myotis indochinensis
Myotis indochinensis
Myotis chinensis is a separate species from the mountain Myotis montivagus by Son et al. (2013). Previously, it was found in China···
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Myotis adversus
Myotis adversus
According to the literature, Myotis laniger is slightly larger than Myotis laniger, but it is not easily separated in the field id···
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Myotis hasseltii
Myotis hasseltii
Myotis horsfieldii belongs to the subgenus <Leuconoe> and is particularly similar to Myotis Horsfieldii, except that the pte···
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Myotis fimbriatus
Myotis fimbriatus
There may be some confusion about the classification of hairy-legged Myotis bats. Different scholars have different classification···
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Myotis chinensis
Myotis chinensis
The Chinese Myotis bat is one of the larger species of bat family. It inhabits large caves, hanging single or in numbers from the ···
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Myotis badius
Myotis badius
Chinchilla bats belong to the Myotis siligorensis group, which was first identified and named in Yunnan, China, in 2011。It often ···
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