Mammalogy - Chiroptera info

General characteristics

Echolocation, Enlarged tragus, rotated acetabulum

Rhinolophidae

Horseshoe bats

• horse shoe shaped nose leaf

• no tragus

• nasal region of skull noticeably inflated

• toes have 3 bones

Family Emballonuridae

• Sac-winged bats 

Smooth, hairless rostrum 

Ears united at top of head

Glandular wing sac in proptagium 

post orbital process present 

Family Noctillionidae 

Bulldog or fishing bats 

Rufus to orange colored, dorsal strip 

large tips form a “hood” over mouth 

large slender ears 

large uropatagium 

calcar present 

large feet 

Family Pteropodidae (6)

Old world fruit bats

large post orbital process 

claw on 2nd finger 

simple ear with no tragus 

non-echolocating (most 

• Longitudinal groove on molars

Family Megadermatidae

False vampire bats

Nose leaf present

lack external tail

Well developed ears unite basally

tragus present

no upper incisors

canins w/ secondary cusp project forward

insect and small vertebrae

Family Rhinopomatidae (5)

Mouse-tailed bats

• Fur lacking on face and rump

• tail nearly as long as needy

• short uropatagium

• well developed ears

• tragus present

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