Chiroptera | |
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A Townsend's Big-Eared Bat. | |
Scientific Classification | |
Kingdom | Animalia |
Phylum | Chordata |
Class | Mammalia |
Order | Chiroptera |
The Chiroptera is an order from the Mammalia class. This group includes mammals whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight.
Types of Bat
- Fruit Bat
- Ghost Bat
- Bate's Slit-faced Bat
- Common long-eared bat
- Common Vampire Bat
- Hairy-legged Vampire Bat
- White-winged Vampire Bat
- Hairless Bat
- Pied Bat
- Curry's Bat
- Little Pied Bat
- Abo Bat
- Madagascar Sucker-footed Bat
- Bougainville Monkey-faced Bat
- Western Sucker-footed Bat
- Allen's Yellow Bat
- Brazilian Brown Bat
- Townsend's Big-Eared Bat
- Dayak Fruit Bat
- New Georgian Monkey-faced Bat
- Thongaree’s Disc-nosed Bat
- Montane Monkey-faced Bat
- Malagasy Mouse-eared Bat
Characteristics[]
Bats are mammals. They are often mistakenly called "flying rodents" or "flying rats". However, they are not directly related to rodents, and much less to birds, and do not in fact have any closely related orders. Bats do not flap their entire forelimbs, as birds do, but instead flap their spread-out digits, which are very long and covered with a thin membrane or patagium. Bats eat mosquitoes, which makes them loveable.