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Vesper bat

Vesper bat

Evening bats or, perhaps more correctly, Vesper bats (family Vespertilionidae) are the largest and best-known family of bats. They belong to the suborder Microchiroptera. There are over 300 species distributed all over the world, on every continent except Antarctica. Sometimes the family is called "common bats". It owes its name to the latin word vesper, meaning "evening".

 
 
Megabat

Megabat

Megabats is the term used informally to refer to bats of the family Pteropodidae (as opposed to Microbats). They are also referred to as fruit bats, old world fruit bats, or flying foxes. According to the most commonly used classification, megabats constitute a single suborder Megachiroptera, within the order Chiroptera.

 
 
Horseshoe bat

Horseshoe bat

Horseshoe bats (the Rhinolophidae family) are a large family of bats including approximately 130 species grouped into ten genera. They either belong to the suborder Microchiroptera or the Yinpterochiroptera.

 
 
Rhinolophus

Rhinolophus

The genus Rhinolophus, commonly called horseshoe bats, comprises approximately 69 distinct species and the only genus of subfamily Rhinolophinae. This is the largest group within the Rhinolophidae family of bats, though they show very little in the way of ecological diversity and are very much a variation on the same theme. Their common name comes from the large horseshoe-shaped nose leaf used for directing their ultrasound.

 
 
Free-tailed bat

Free-tailed bat

Molossidae, or Free-tailed bats, are a family of bats within the Chiroptera order. They are generally quite robust, and consist of many strong flying forms with relatively long and narrow wings. Another common name for some members of this group, and indeed a few species from other families, is Mastiff Bat. The Western mastiff bat, Eumops perotis, a large species from the southwestern United States and Mexico with wings over half a metre across, is perhaps one of the best known with this name.

 
 
Mouse-eared bats

Mouse-eared bats

For the species sometimes known as the mouse-eared bat, see the greater mouse-eared bat. The mouse-eared bats, genus Myotis, are a genus of around 90 species of bat, found around the globe with 10 species in Europe.