Megadermatidae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Megadermatidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Megadermatidae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Megadermatidae
Megadermatidae, or false vampire bats, are a family of bats found from central Africa, eastwards through southern Asia, and into Australia. They are relatively large bats, ranging from 6.5 cm to 14 cm in head-body length. They have large eyes, very large ears and a prominent nose-leaf. They have a wide membrane between the hind legs, or uropatagium, but no tail. Many species are a drab brown, but some are white, bluish-grey or even olive-green, helping to camouflage them against their preferred roosting environments.
They are primarily insectivorous, but will also eat a wide range of small vertebrates.
...Megadermatidae in languages:
- Bokmål
- Rovflaggermusfamilien
- Czech
- megadermovití
- Dutch
- Reuzenoorvleermuizen
- English
- False Vampire Bats
- Finnish
- valevampyyrit
- French
- Megadermatidés
- German
- Großblattnasen
- Russian
- Копьеносые
- Thai
- ค้างคาวแวมไพร์แปลง
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