Megaderma: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Megadermatidae
Genus
Megaderma
Species
Scientific Name
Megaderma

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Megaderma

Megaderma is a genus of bat in the family Megadermatidae. It contains two living species:

  • Lesser false vampire bat (Megaderma spasma)
  • Greater false vampire bat (Megaderma lyra)

Megaderma lyra has a larger wingspan than Megaderma spasma. Members of this genus are found in Southeast Asia, India and Sri Lanka. The ranges of the two species overlap in the Malayan Peninsula, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and along the east coast of India.

The ghost bat (Macroderma gigas) was included in Megaderma before reclassification in Macroderma.

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Megaderma in languages:

Finnish
aasianvalevampyyrit
German
Falsche Vampire

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