The shaggy bat (''Centronycteris maximiliani'') is a bat species from northern

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the souther ...

. It appears to be a slow flier and has a rather regular pattern of foraging in its home range, a feature shared with other emballonurids. It is an aerial insectivore.

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Bats of South America Bats of Brazil Mammals of Colombia Centronycteris Shaggy bat Shaggy bat {{Emballonuridae-stub