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Tylonycteris
The bamboo bats are a genus of Vespertilionidae, vesper bats 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 in this genus roost within bamboo shoots. The species within this genus are: * Blyth's bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris fulvida'' * Malayan bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris malayana'' * Lesser bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris pachypus'' * Pygmy bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris pygmaeus'' * Greater bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris robustula'' * Tonkin bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris tonkinensis'' Traditionally, the genus was considered to have only two species, ''T. robustula'' and ''T. pachypus''. A new species, ''pygmaea'' ... [...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 organisms#Smallest mammal, 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 (ear), 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 (aeronautics), 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 ba ... [...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 has a wide range within Southern and Southeast Asia, including Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam. They have been found at elevations up to . Taxonomy The species was initially described by Oldfield Thomas in 1915, in ''On bats of the genera Nyctalus, Tylonycteris, and Pipistrellus''. It formerly had two subspecies, ''Tylonycteris robustula malayana'' and ''Tylonycteris robustula robustula''. A 2017 paper reanalyzed ''T. malayana'' as a full species. Description Like other bats in ''Tylonycteris'', greater bamboo bats are quite small, weighing between and . They have a forearm length of to . Compared to other bats, the genus has a flattened skull, and has pads on the thumb and base of the foot. Within the genus, the greater bamboo bat is one of the larger species, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tylonycteris
The bamboo bats are a genus of Vespertilionidae, vesper bats 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 in this genus roost within bamboo shoots. The species within this genus are: * Blyth's bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris fulvida'' * Malayan bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris malayana'' * Lesser bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris pachypus'' * Pygmy bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris pygmaeus'' * Greater bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris robustula'' * Tonkin bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris tonkinensis'' Traditionally, the genus was considered to have only two species, ''T. robustula'' and ''T. pachypus''. A new species, ''pygmaea'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pygmy Bamboo Bat
The pygmy bamboo bat (''Tylonycteris pygmaea'') is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found in Southwest China Southwestern China () is a region in the People's Republic of China. It consists of five provincial administrative regions, namely Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Xizang. Geography Southwestern China is a rugged and mountainous region, ... 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 hume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 – 20 April 1883) was a German natural history, naturalist and explorer. He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, 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 ... [...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 * The States of Malaya (1963–present) Science * '' Megisba malaya'', a butterfly commonly called the Malayan People * Malaya Akulukjuk (born 1915?), Canadian Inuk artist * Malaya Drew (born 1987), American actress * Malaya Marcelino, Canadian politician * Oxana Malaya (born 1983), Ukrainian mental patient known for her morbid dog-like childhood behaviour * Malaya (born 1980), a founding member o ... [...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'', 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 and west of the Gulf of Ton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
