Amorphochilus schnablii: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Furipteridae
Genus
Amorphochilus
Species
Amorphochilus schnablii
Scientific Name
Amorphochilus schnablii

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Smoky bat

The smoky bat (Amorphochilus schnablii) is a species of bat in the family Furipteridae. It is the only species within the genus Amorphochilus. Its natural habitat is rocky shores.

It is also called the thumbless bat because its thumb is partly enclosed in its wing; this common name is also applied to another species, Furipterus horrens. They lives in western Peru, western Ecuador, Puna island (Ecuador) and northern Chile. and can be found in groups of up to 300 bats. In 2013, Bat Conservation International listed this species as one of the 35 species of its worldwide priority list of conservation.

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Amorphochilus schnablii in languages:

Czech
netopýrek západní
English
Smoky Bat
English
Smokey Bat
Finnish
peikkoleikko

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Amorphochilus schnablii
©Jose G. Martinez-Fonseca, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
Amorphochilus schnablii
©Joaquín Ugarte, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
Amorphochilus schnablii
©Joaquín Ugarte, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
Amorphochilus schnablii
©Joaquín Ugarte, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
Amorphochilus schnablii
©Joaquín Ugarte, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
Amorphochilus schnablii
©Joaquín Ugarte, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)
Amorphochilus schnablii
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