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Bats Of The Caribbean
The bat fauna of the Caribbean region is diverse. For the purposes of this article, the "Caribbean" includes all islands in the Caribbean Sea (except for small islets close to the mainland) and the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Barbados, which are not in the Caribbean Sea but biogeographically belong to the same Caribbean bioregion. Overview The genera of Caribbean bats are classified as follows: *Order Chiroptera **Family Emballonuridae ***Subfamily Emballonurinae: '' Diclidurus'', '' Peropteryx'', '' Rhynchonycteris'', '' Saccopteryx'' **Family Furipteridae: '' Furipterus'' **Family Molossidae ***Subfamily Molossinae: '' Cynomops'', '' Eumops'', '' Molossus'', '' Mormopterus'', '' Nyctinomops'', '' Promops'', '' Tadarida'' **Family Mormoopidae: ''Mormoops'', '' Pteronotus'' **Family Natalidae: '' Chilonatalus'', '' Natalus'', '' Nyctiellus'' **Family Noctilionidae: '' Noctilio'' **Family Phyllostomidae ***Subfamily Brachyphyllinae: '' Brachyphylla'' ***Subfami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caribbean
The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America to the west, and South America to the south, it comprises numerous List of Caribbean islands, islands, cays, islets, reefs, and banks. It includes the Lucayan Archipelago, Greater Antilles, and Lesser Antilles of the West Indies; the Quintana Roo Municipalities of Quintana Roo#Municipalities, islands and Districts of Belize#List, Belizean List of islands of Belize, islands of the Yucatán Peninsula; and the Bay Islands Department#Islands, Bay Islands, Miskito Cays, Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina, Corn Islands, and San Blas Islands of Central America. It also includes the coastal areas on the Mainland, continental mainland of the Americas bordering the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynomops
''Cynomops'' is a genus of Central and South American dog-faced bats in the family Molossidae. It has sometimes been considered a subgenus of '' Molossops''. It contains the following species: * Cinnamon dog-faced bat (''C. abrasus'') * Freeman's dog-faced bat (''C. freemani'') * Greenhall's dog-faced bat (''C. greenhalli'') * '' Cynomops kuizha'' * '' Cynomops mastivus'' (''C. mastivus'') * Mexican dog-faced bat (''C. mexicanus'') * Miller’s dog-faced bat (''C. milleri'') * Para dog-faced bat The southern dog-faced bat (''Cynomops planirostris''), is a bat species of the family Molossidae. It is found in northern Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname and Venezuela Venez ... (''C. paranus'') * Southern dog-faced bat (''C. planirostris'') * Waorani dog-faced bat (''C. tonkigui'') Phylogeny References Bat genera Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas {{Molossidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nyctiellus
Gervais's funnel-eared bat (''Nyctiellus lepidus'') is a species of bat in the family Natalidae. It is the only species within the genus ''Nyctiellus''. It is found in Bahamas and Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the .... Sources Natalidae Mammals of Cuba Mammals described in 1837 Mammals of the Bahamas Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Bats of the Caribbean Taxa named by Paul Gervais {{Bat-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalus
The genus (biology), genus ''Natalus'' of Natalidae, funnel-eared bats is found from Mexico to Brazil and the Caribbean islands. They are slender bats with unusually long tails and, as their name suggests, funnel-shaped ears. They are small, at only 3.5 to 5.5 cm in length, with brown, grey, yellow, or reddish fur. Their tail is completely enclosed in the interfemoral membrane. Adult males have a natalid organ, a large glad-like organ, on the muzzle or face. Their skulls are delicate and extended. They have swollen, rounded braincase and narrow, somewhat tubular Rostrum (anatomy), rostrum. They have nineteen teeth on both sides, with two upper and three lower being incisors, one upper and lower Canine tooth, canine, three upper and lower premolars, and three upper and lower molars. Like many other bats, they are insectivore, insectivorous, and roost in caves. The genus is similar to the Furipteridae and Thyropteridae genera. All three genera have mostly the same geographic rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilonatalus
The genus ''Chilonatalus'' of funnel-eared bats is found in South America and the Antilles The Antilles is an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east. The Antillean islands are divided into two smaller groupings: the Greater An .... It has three species. New mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences that were analyzed with published morphological data to see the relationship of extinct natalids. It was found that this fossil taxon's phylogeny that was based on morphological data can be assumed that the ''Chilonatalus micropus'' is and one other species is a widespread species References Bat genera Taxa named by Gerrit Smith Miller Jr. Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Bat-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalidae
The family (biology), family Natalidae, or funnel-eared bats, are found from Mexico to Brazil and the Caribbean islands. The family has three genus, genera, ''Chilonatalus'', ''Natalus'' and ''Nyctiellus''. They are slender bats with unusually long tails and, as their name suggests, funnel-shaped ears. They are small, at only in length, with brown, grey, or reddish fur. Like many other bats, they are insectivore, insectivorous, and roost in caves. Geographic changes and isolation methods have affected the differences among species within this family of Natalie's. Like the Natalus from Cueva La Barca, males seem to have longer tibias and greater skulls than that of females and when comparing them to the Greater Antilles, they have the largest body in the genus. Natalus prefer warm and humid caves as roost sites and were mostly in Cuba but most fossils have been found there likely due to erosion. These hot caves are no longer in Cuba and that could have led to the extinction of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pteronotus
''Pteronotus'' is a genus of bats. Eight extant species have been recognized, as well as one relatively recently extinct species. References * Gutierrez, E.E. & Molinari, J. 2008. Morphometrics and taxonomy of bats of the genus ''Pteronotus'' (subgenus ''Phyllodia'') in Venezuela. Journal of Mammalogy 89(2): 292–305. Pteronotus, Bat genera Taxa named by John Edward Gray {{bat-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mormoops
''Mormoops'' is a genus of bat in the family Mormoopidae. It contains the following species: * Antillean ghost-faced bat (''Mormoops blainvillii'') * Giant ghost-faced bat (†''Mormoops magna'') * Ghost-faced bat (''Mormoops megalophylla'') References Mormoops, Bat genera Taxa named by William Elford Leach Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{bat-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mormoopidae
The family Mormoopidae contains bats known generally as mustached bats, ghost-faced bats, and naked-backed bats. They are found in the Americas from the Southwestern United States to Southeastern Brazil. They are distinguished by the presence of a leaf-like projection from their lips, instead of the nose-leaf found in many other bat species. In some species, the wing membranes join over the animal's back, making it appear hairless. The tail projects only a short distance beyond the membrane that stretches between the hind legs. They are brownish in colour, with short, dense fur. Their dental formula is: Mormoopid bats roost in caves and tunnels in huge colonies that may include hundreds of thousands of members, producing enough guano to allow commercial mining. They do not hibernate as some other bats do since they live in the tropics. They feed on insect Insects (from Latin ') are Hexapoda, hexapod invertebrates of the class (biology), class Insecta. They are t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadarida
The genus ''Tadarida'' has nine or more species of free-tailed bats divided into two subgenera, with the first of these containing seven species spread across the Old World (including southern Europe and North Africa, large parts of southern Asia, and India right across to Japan). Four species occur exclusively in Africa including Madagascar while two more species occur in central Papua New Guinea, and western and southern Australia, respectively. The relatively well-known species '' T. teniotis'', which occurs in southern Europe and North Africa, the Middle East, and across southern Asia to Japan, is known to fly often during the late afternoon, where it hawks for insects alongside swifts (Apodidae), swallows, and martins (Hirundinidae). The other subgenus contains the widespread New World single species '' T. brasiliensis'' (subgenus ''Rhizomops''), which ranges from the southern United States and the West Indies to Chile and Argentina. This species is noted for its massive ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promops
''Promops'' is a genus of free-tailed bat The Molossidae, or free-tailed bats, are a family of bats within the order Chiroptera. The Molossidae is the fourth-largest family of bats, containing about 110 species as of 2012. They are generally quite robust, and consist of many strong-fly ...s. Species * '' Promops centralis'' - big crested mastiff bat * '' Promops davisoni'' * '' Promops nasutus'' - brown mastiff bat References Molossidae Bat genera Taxa named by Paul Gervais {{Molossidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nyctinomops
''Nyctinomops'' is a genus of bat Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera (). 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 ...s in the family Molossidae. References Bat genera Taxa named by Gerrit Smith Miller Jr. {{Molossidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
