Family RHINOPOMATIDAE

(MOUSE-TAILED BATS)

• Smallto medium-sized insectivorous bats, with reduced tail membrane but free long tail; relatively large auricles, with tragus; and minute noseleaf above fleshy anterior pad of muzzle with dorsally oriented, valvular nostrils.

• 10-16 cm.

• Palearctic, Afrotropical, and Indo-Malayan regions.

• Arid and semiarid habitats, roosting in caves, rocky niches, and man-made structures.

• 1 genus, 6 species, 8 taxa.

• 1 species Endangered; none Extinct since 1600.