Family RHINONYCTERIDAE

(TRIDENT BATS)

• Small insectivorous bats with rather small ears lacking tragus and typically large complex noseleaves that, in all but one species, have posterior margins with three tall pointed processes forming trident-like structures.

• 6-12 cm.

• Afrotropical, Australasian, and marginally Palearctic Regions.

• From dry savannas to forest savannas and forests in tropics, marginally in subtropics.

• 4 genera, 9 species, 9 taxa.

• 1species Vulnerable; none extinct since 1600.