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Hipposideros armiger

Hipposideros armiger

Great Himalayan Leaf-nosed Bat,Hipposideros armiger

Features:It is one of the largest species of insectivorous bats in China.

The big horseshoe bat is very large, with forearms up to nearly 100 mm, ears are also large, triangular, hair is long and dense, body color changes, back color smoke brown or even black brown, belly color gray brown, some purple brown.Large horseshoe bats often live in tens or hundreds of individual...

Lesserbrownhorseshoebat

Lesserbrownhorseshoebat

Lesserbrownhorseshoebat,Rhinolophussineno

Features:The back hair is brown, the belly hair is light.

The new distribution record of this species was reported in China in 2005. Alice C. Hughes et al. recorded its capture in the ecological monitoring survey of Xishuangbanna Botanical Garden in Yunnan Province (see photo), which is the northernmost distribution of this species. Abroad, it is mainly di...

Chinese Horseshoe Bat

Chinese Horseshoe Bat

Chinese Horseshoe Bat, Chinese Rufous Horseshoe Bat

Features:Small eyes and big ears, host of new coronavirus, host of SARS

The Chinese Rhinolophus rouxii sinicus was previously classified as a subspecies of Rhinolophus rouxii sinicus (Chinese name for Rhinolophus rouxii sinicus) until 1997. Due to chromosome and morphological studies, it is very different from Rhinolophus lui, so it was promoted to a separate species in...

Schnitler’s Horseshoe Bat

Schnitler’s Horseshoe Bat

Features:It is endemic to China.

The species is found in a rocky cave surrounded by agricultural land, 200m from the nearest village. Rhinolophus macroetalis, Rhinolophus mari, Rhinolophus chinensis and Myotis were also collected from the same cave. This species is named Schnitler's Horseshoe Bat in honor of Professor Hans-Ulri...

Rhinolophus rex

Rhinolophus rex

Rhinolophus rex

Features:The nose leaves are peculiar, with a total length of 14 mm.

A female bat, Rhinolophus rex, was caught 100m away from the entrance of Kunebian Cave on Kunebian Mountain in Shijiaba Town, Xingshan County, Hubei Province, at 10 am on December 11, 2007, during a survey of biodiversity in caves between Yichang and Badong sections of the Shanghai to Chengdu Expres...

Rhinolophus blythi

Rhinolophus blythi

Rhinolophus blythi

Features:

R. blythi andersen: Least horseshoe bat is the smaller of the horseshoe bats. It lives in caves, tunnels, or near settlements in low mountains. They live in common with other bats. The number is small,1-5 heads in a group, occasionally 20 large groups. Homogenous groups occur seasonally. Prey on mot...

Rhinolophus pearsonii

Rhinolophus pearsonii

Rhinolophus pearsonii

Features:The body hair is long and soft, tan or dark brown.

Rhinolophus pearsonii (Rhinolophus pearsonii) is a member of the Rhinolophidae, genus Rhinolophus. The body size is medium, from the side view, the joint protrudent tip is low round, and there is no concave gap between the saddle-like structure, from the front view, the saddle-like structure is narr...

Rhinolophus marshalli

Rhinolophus marshalli

Lesser Brown Rhinolophus

Features:The ear shell is wide and long, and the antitragus is well developed and slightly triangular.

Rhinolophus maculata is a small cave bat. It has been seen living in the same cave with Rhinolophus sinicus, Rhinolophus pusillus, Hipposideros pomona, etc. It is an insectivorous bat that hibernates. Rhinolophus maculata belongs to the <philippinesis>-<group> and is easily confused with...

Big-eared Horseshoe Bat

Big-eared Horseshoe Bat

Big-eared Horseshoe Bat

Features:The body size is small, the ears are large, the hooves of the nose lobes are broad, the middle is obviously engraved, and the two sides of the front have small appendages.

Rhinolophus macroetalis is a bat of the genus Rhinolophidae. It lives in small numbers in caves and commutes with other bats, generally staying on the edge of caves or on the top wall of rocks near the entrance. Feeds on nocturnal flying insects.This species contains 3 subspecies in China and has a...

Rhinolophus luctus

Rhinolophus luctus

Rhinolophus luctus;woolly horseshoe bat

Features:The largest species of horseshoe bat in China, it lives alone or in pairs and is very rare.

The Great Rhinolophus lives in caves, often sharing a cave with other species of Rhinolophus and Hoofed Bats, but always hangs alone on the cave ceiling, and most of them are in a brighter place not far from the cave entrance. One captured in Suichuan, Jiangxi, was hanging less than 3m above the gro...

Rhinolophus huananus

Rhinolophus huananus

Rhinolophus chinensis

Features:The ears are large, with a correspondingly small antitragus.

The number of South China Rhinolophus is relatively rare, and it is a cave-type bat. It can be seen living in the same cave with Chinese Rhinolophus (<Rhinolophus sinicus>), small-footed bat (<Hipposideros pomona>), big-eared Rhinolophus (<R. macrotis>), etc. Before the publication...

Greater Horseshoe Bat

Greater Horseshoe Bat

Greater Horseshoe Bat

Features:The ears are large and slightly broad, with pointed ends

There are species of mouse-eared bat and Oriental bat in the roost cave. During the day and night, sleep between stone cracks or wall cracks during the day, hanging alone on the stone wall, hanging with two limbs and upside down on the stone wall, forelimbs wrapped around the body, when external sou...

porpoise

porpoise

Cetacea LC

Features:It's a relatively small toothed whale

The porpoise (Phocoena phocoena in Latin), also known as porpoise, is the most common toothed whale in the North and Baltic Seas.Porpoises prefer calmer waters at a medium depth of about 20 meters near the coast, but occasionally swim deeper into the ocean.Porpoises feed almost exclusively on fish,...

Sotalia fluviatilis

Sotalia fluviatilis

South American long-beaked dolphin, Amazon River white-sided dolphin

Cetacea LC

Features:The body is stout, the beak is prominent, and the forehead is slightly rounded.

Tucuxi dolphin (scientific name: Sotalia fluviatilis) is also known as tucuxi in English. There is no subspecies.Although they may let ships approach, most Tucuxi dolphins are wary of ships. They may ride on the waves caused by passing ships, but will not perform bow riding. Often seen peeping, tail...

Cephalorhynchus heavisidii

Cephalorhynchus heavisidii

South African dolphin, Hiwig's dolphin, Benguela dolphin

Cetacea LC

Features:The dorsal fin is a distinct triangle, and the body color is a striking black, white and gray pattern.

Haviside's dolphin (scientific name: Cephalorhynchus heavisidii) is called Haviside's dolphin in foreign language, and has no subspecies.Haviside's dolphin is cautious by nature and sometimes quite shy. It is rare to see them jumping, but they have been known to leap more than 2 meters o...

Cephalorhynchus eutropia

Cephalorhynchus eutropia

black dolphin, black dolphin, Chilean dolphin

Cetacea LC

Features:After death, the body color will soon darken, so it is also called "black dolphin".

Chilean dwarf dolphin (scientific name: Cephalorhynchus eutropia) is also known as Chilean Dolphin and Black dolphin in foreign languages. There is no subspecies.Little is known about the Chilean dwarf dolphin, but it is generally believed that this species of dolphin is cautious by nature; it rarel...

Cephalorhynchus commersonii

Cephalorhynchus commersonii

Black and white dolphin, panda dolphin, Connor's dwarf dolphin

Cetacea LC

Features:The beak is quite sharp, with unclear boundaries between it and the forehead, and the pattern on its body is very similar to that of a panda.

The spotted beaked dolphin is the common name of Commerson's dolphin (scientific name: Cephalorhynchus commersonii), also known as Commerson's dolphin in English, and has two subspecies.Spotted beaked dolphins usually live in groups of 1 to 3, and there are also large groups of more than 100...

Cephalorhynchus hectori

Cephalorhynchus hectori

Hector's dolphin, Atlantic black and white dolphin, white-headed dolphin, New Zealand dolphin, white-headed beaked dolphin, Hector's dwarf dolphin

Cetacea LC

Features:One of the rarest species and the smallest oceanic dolphin

New Zealand black and white dolphins (scientific name: Cephalorhynchus hectori) are called Hector's Dolphin and Dolphin in foreign languages. There are two subspecies.New Zealand black and white dolphins usually gather in small groups of 2-10. These small groups sometimes temporarily unite to fo...

Orcaella brevirostris

Orcaella brevirostris

Irrawaddy dolphin, fin dolphin

Cetacea LC

Features:The body is stout, round and streamlined, with a large forehead and a blunt and round head.

Irrawaddy dolphin (scientific name: Orcaella brevirostris), foreign name Irrawaddy dolphin, no subspecies.Irrawaddy dolphins are social animals, usually 3 to 6 in groups, the social behavior of group members occurs within and outside the group, and they also swim with other groups. When Irrawaddy do...

Globicephala melas

Globicephala melas

Atlantic pilot whale, black whale, pilot whale

Cetacea LC

Features:Its forehead is round and its dorsal fin is sickle-shaped. Its flippers are very long, accounting for 15-20% of its body length.

Long-finned pilot whale (scientific name: Globicephala melas) is also known as Atlantic pilot whale and black round-headed whale. There are two subspecies.Long-finned pilot whales are a group of organisms that like to live in cold salt water areas with a temperature of 13-30℃. The diving depth is 3...

Lissodelphis peronii

Lissodelphis peronii

Southern whale dolphin, beaked dolphin without dorsal fin

Cetacea LC

Features:The only dolphin in the Southern Hemisphere without a dorsal fin

The Southern Right Dolphin (scientific name: Lissodelphis peronii) is also known as the Southern Right Whale Dolphin. It has no subspecies. It is the only dolphin in the Southern Hemisphere without a dorsal fin, and has a distinct black and white pattern on its body. If the Southern Right Dolphin is...