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Tylonycteris
The bamboo bats are genus of vesper bats Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats. The vespertilionid family is the most diverse and widely distributed of bat familie ... in the genus ''Tylonycteris''. The name translates as "padded bat", and refers to the presence of hairless fleshy pads on the hands and feet, which the bats use to help them grip onto bamboo. Ecology Asia. The species within this genus are: * Blyth's bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris fulvida'' * Malayan bambo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesser Bamboo Bat
The lesser bamboo bat or lesser flat-headed bat (''Tylonycteris pachypus'') is one of the smallest species of vesper bat, and is native to Southeast Asia. Description The bat, the size of a bumble bee, is among the smallest mammals on earth, measuring about in head-body length with a tail about long and a wingspan of . Adults weigh between . The fur ranges from golden or cinnamon to dark brown, and is paler on the underside of the body. The head is flattened, with a short snout and triangular ears with a wide tragus. The name ''pachypus'' means "thick-footed" and refers to the presence of smooth fleshy pads at the base of the thumb and on the heels of the feet, which help the bat grip onto bamboo stalks. The wings have an aspect ratio of 6.2, allowing the bat to be agile in flight at the expense of a slow speed. A 4.8 gram T. pachypus has about an 80 mg brain. Distribution and habitat Lesser bamboo bats are found throughout Southeast Asia from Bangladesh to southern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tylonycteris
The bamboo bats are genus of vesper bats Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats. The vespertilionid family is the most diverse and widely distributed of bat familie ... in the genus ''Tylonycteris''. The name translates as "padded bat", and refers to the presence of hairless fleshy pads on the hands and feet, which the bats use to help them grip onto bamboo. Ecology Asia. The species within this genus are: * Blyth's bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris fulvida'' * Malayan bambo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Bamboo Bat
The greater bamboo bat (''Tylonycteris robustula'') is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b .... It has two subspecies: * ''Tylonycteris robustula malayana'' * ''Tylonycteris robustula robustula'' References China's Tiny BatsBy Libiao Zhang in Volume 6, Number 9 - September 2008 issue of "Bat Conservation Times". Tylonycteris Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Mammals described in 1915 Bats of Southeast Asia Bats of Indonesia Bats of Malaysia Mammals of Brunei Mammals of China Mammals of India Mammals of Cambodia Mammals of Singapore Mammals of Myanmar Mammals of Thailand Mammals of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pygmy Bamboo Bat
The pygmy bamboo bat (''Tylonycteris pygmaeus'') is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found in Southwest China Southwest China () is a region in the south of the People's Republic of China. Geography Southwest China is a rugged and mountainous region, transitioning between the Tibetan Plateau to the west and the Chinese coastal hills (东南丘陵) and ... and was discovered in 2007. October 2012, page 9 The species is around long and weighs between . References Further reading * Feng, Qing, Song Li, Yingxiang Wang, ''New Species of Bamboo Bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: Tylonycteris) from Southwestern China''. Zoological Science 25(2): 225–234. 2008. ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vespertilionidae
Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats. The vespertilionid family is the most diverse and widely distributed of bat families, specialised in many forms to occupy a range of habitats and ecological circumstances, and it is frequently observed or the subject of research. The facial features of the species are often simple, as they mainly rely on vocally emitted echolocation. The tails of the species are enclosed by the lower flight membranes between the legs. Over 300 species are distributed all over the world, on every continent except Antarctica. It owes its name to the genus '' Vespertilio'', which takes its name from a word for bat, ', derived from the Latin term ' meaning 'evening'; they are termed "evening bats" and were once referred to as "evening birds". (The term "evening bat" also often refers more specifically to one of the species, '' Nycticeius hum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 in Koldenbüttel – 20 April 1883) was a German naturalist and explorer. He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. Encouraged by Müller and the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Peters travelled to Mozambique via Angola in September 1842, exploring the coastal region and the Zambesi River. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens, which he then described in ''Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique... in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt'' (1852–1882). The work was comprehensive in its coverage, dealing with mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, river fish, insects and botany. He replaced Martin Lichtenstein as curator of the museum in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In a few years, he greatly increased the Berlin Museum's herpetol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malayan Bamboo Bat
Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia: Political entities * British Malaya (1826–1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits Settlements and the British protectorates of the Malay States * Malayan Union (1946–1948), a post-war British colony consisting of all the states and settlements in British Malaya except Singapore * Federation of Malaya (1948–1963), the successor to the Malayan Union, which gained independence within the Commonwealth of Nations in 1957 * States of Malaya (1963-Present), the States of the Federation of Malaya following the merger with the self-governing State of Singapore and the Colonies of North Borneo (renamed Sabah), Sarawak to form the Federation of Malaysia Geography Malaya comprises the States of Malaya and Singapore Science * ''Megisba malaya'', a butterfly commonly called the Malayan People * Malaya Akulukjuk (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonkin Bamboo Bat
Tonkin, also spelled ''Tongkin'', ''Tonquin'' or ''Tongking'', is an exonym referring to the northern region of Vietnam. During the 17th and 18th centuries, this term referred to the domain ''Đàng Ngoài'' under Trịnh lords' control, including both the Northern and Thanh- Nghệ regions, north of the Gianh River. From 1884 to early 1945, this term was used for the French protectorate of Tonkin, composed of only the Northern region. Names "Tonkin" is a Western rendition of 東京 ''Đông Kinh'', meaning 'Eastern Capital'. This was the name of the capital of the Lê dynasty (present-day Hanoi). Locally, Tonkin is nowadays known as ''miền Bắc'', or ''Bắc Bộ'' (北部), meaning ' Northern Region'. The name was used from 1883 to 1945 for the French protectorate of Tonkin (Vietnamese: ''Bắc Kỳ'' 北圻), a constituent territory of French Indochina. Geography It is south of Yunnan (Vân Nam) and Guangxi (Quảng Tây) Provinces of China; east of northern Laos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bat Genera
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera.''cheir'', "hand" and πτερόν''pteron'', "wing". With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane or patagium. The smallest bat, and arguably the smallest extant mammal, is Kitti's hog-nosed bat, which is in length, across the wings and in mass. The largest bats are the flying foxes, with the giant golden-crowned flying fox, ''Acerodon jubatus'', reaching a weight of and having a wingspan of . The second largest order of mammals after rodents, bats comprise about 20% of all classified mammal species worldwide, with over 1,400 species. These were traditionally divided into two suborders: the largely fruit-eating megabats, and the echolocating microbats. But more recent evidence has supported dividing the order into Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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