THYROPTERIDAE, Miller, 1907

Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Thyropteridae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 418-423 : 418

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6616936
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6616991
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scientific name	THYROPTERIDAE
status

Treatment

Family THYROPTERIDAE View in CoL

(DISK-WINGED BATS)

• Small insectivorous bats with elongated slender muzzle and funnel-shaped ears and characterized by round or oval adhesive pads or disks on soles of hindfeet and below thumbs.

• 6-9 cm. View Figure

• Neotropical Region. View Figure

• Lowland tropical forests.

• 1 genus, 5 species, 5 taxa.

• No species threatened; none Extinct since 1600.

Figures

• 6-9 cm.

• Neotropical Region.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Chiroptera
Family	Thyropteridae

Specimens