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.
...Amorphochilus schnablii in languages:
- Czech
- netopýrek západní
- English
- Smoky Bat
- English
- Smokey Bat
- Finnish
- peikkoleikko
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