''Mimon'' is a
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 ...
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
from
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
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Species
Genus: ''Mimon'' - Gray's spear-nosed bats
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Golden bat, ''Mimon bennettii''
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Cozumelan golden bat, ''Mimon cozumelae''
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Striped hairy-nosed bat, ''Mimon crenulatum''
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Koepcke's hairy-nosed bat
Koepcke's hairy-nosed bat (''Gardnerycteris koepckeae'') is a species of bat that is endemic to Peru.
References
Phyllostomidae
Mammals described in 1972
Bats of South America
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, ''Mimon koepckeae''
References
The Taxonomicon
Bats of South America
Phyllostomidae
Bat genera
Taxa named by John Edward Gray
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