Family MINIOPTERIDAE

(LONG-FINGERED BATS)

• Small to medium-sized bats, with simple muzzle and no nasal process or noseleaf, tail completely within uropatagium, and second phalanx of the third finger nearly three times as long as the first, with a characteristically bent appearance.

• 9-13 cm.

• Palearctic, Afrotropical, Indo-Malayan, and Australasian Regions.

• (Cave roosting and all biomes, except deserts.

• 1 genus, 38 species, 47 taxa.

• 2 species Endangered; none Extinct since 1600.