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Yangochiroptera

Home Bats Yangochiroptera
Location
Classification
J. Scott Altenbach
Idionycteris phyllotis

“Allen’s Big-eared Bat”

Arizona Myotis, Myotis occultus
Rick and Nora Bowers/Alamy Stock Photo
Myotis occultus

“Arizona Myotis”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Eptesicus fuscus

“Big Brown Bat”

Bruce D. Taubert
Nyctinomops macrotis

“Big Free-tailed Bat”

Woolly False Vampire Bat Chrotopterus auritus 23012012 2
Image credit Jose Gabriel Martinez Fonseca
Chrotopterus auritus

“Big-eared Woolly Bat”

Brandt's Myotis
Brandt's myotis. Jeroen van der Kooij
Myotis brandtii

“Brandt’s myotis”

Yushi & Keiko Osawa
Craseonycteris thonglongyai

“Bumblebee Bat”

Jason Corbett
Macrotus californicus

“California Leaf-nosed Bat”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Myotis californicus

“California Myotis”

J. Scott Altenbach
Parastrellus hesperus

“Canyon Bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Myotis velifer

“Cave Myotis”

Jose Gabriel Martinez Fonseca
Desmodus rotundus

“Common Vampire Bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Myotis melanorhinus

“Dark-nosed small-footed myotis”

J. Scott Altenbach
Lasiurus borealis

“Eastern Red Bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Myotis leibii

“Eastern small-footed myotis”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Nycticeius humeralis

“Evening Bat”

Mops bregullae

“Fijian Free-tailed Bat”

Richard Jackson
Myotis vivesi

“Fish-eating myotis”

Melqui Gamba
Eumops floridanus

“Florida Bonneted Bat”

Staff Pick: Dr. Amanda Adams
Jose Gabriel Martinez Fonseca
Trachops cirrhosus

“Fringe-lipped Bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Myotis thysanodes

“Fringed Myotis”

J. Scott Altenbach
Myotis grisescens

“Gray Myotis”

J. Scott Altenbach
Eumops perotis

“Greater Bonneted Bat”

Hawaiian hoary bat. Photo by Jack Jeffrey.
Hawaiian Hoary Bat

“Hawaiian Hoary Bat”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Lasiurus cinereus

“Hoary Bat”

Konrad Wothe/Minden Pictures
Ectophylla alba

“Honduran White Bat”

Jim Kennedy
Myotis sodalis

“Indiana Myotis”

Sherri & Brock Fenton
Phyllonycteris aphylla

“Jamaican Flower Bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Artibeus jamaicensis

“Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat”

Natalus jamaicensis

“Jamaican Greater Funnel-eared Bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Myotis keenii

“Keen’s Myotis”

Dr. Jon Flanders
Hipposideros lamottei

“Lamotte’s roundleaf bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Leptonycteris yerbabuenae

“Lesser Long-nosed Bat”

Jason Corbett
Myotis lucifugus

“Little Brown Myotis”

Charles M. Francis
Vampyressa thyone

“Little yellow-eared bat”

Staff Pick: Rachel Harper
Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Myotis evotis

“Long-eared Myotis”

J. Scott Altenbach
Myotis volans

“Long-legged Myotis”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Tadarida brasiliensis

“Mexican Free-tailed Bat”

Dr. Winifred Frick
Leptonycteris nivalis

“Mexican Long-nosed Bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Choeronycteris mexicana

“Mexican Long-tongued Bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Myotis septentrionalis

“Northern Long-eared Bat”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Lasiurus intermedius

“Northern Yellow Bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Molossus molossus

“Pallas's Mastiff Bat”

Staff Pick: Dr. Winifred Frick
Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Antrozous pallidus

“Pallid Bat”

Mormoops megalophylla

“Peters's ghost-faced bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Nyctinomops femorosaccus

“Pocketed Free-tailed Bat”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Corynorhinus rafinesquii

“Rafinesque’s Big-eared Bat”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Lasiurus seminolus

“Seminole Bat”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Lasionycteris noctivagans

“Silver-haired Bat”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Myotis austroriparius

“Southeastern Myotis”

J. Scott Altenbach
Lasiurus ega

“Southern Yellow Bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Myotis auriculus

“Southwestern Myotis”

Vampyrum spectrum
“Vampyrum spectrum. Photo by Sherri & Brock Fenton.”
Vampyrum spectrum

“Spectral Bat, Greater False Vampire Bat”

Michael Durham / Minden Pictures
Euderma maculatum

“Spotted Bat”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Corynorhinus townsendii

“Townsend’s Big-eared Bat”

Rachel Harper
Perimyotis subflavus

“Tricolored Bat”

Dr. Rodrigo Medellin
Musonycteris harrisoni

“Trumpet-nosed bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Eumops underwoodi

“Underwood’s Bonneted Bat”

Staff Pick: Dr. Jon Flanders
Hugo Willocx/Foto Natura/Minden Pictures
Barbastella barbastellus

“Western Barbastelle Bat”

Jose Gabriel Martinez Fonseca
Lasiurus blossevillii

“Western Red Bat”

Rachel Harper
Myotis ciliolabrum

“Western Small-Footed Myotis”

Bruce D. Taubert
Lasiurus xanthinus

“Western Yellow Bat”

Staff Pick: Mike Daulton
Bruce D. Taubert
Centurio senex

“Wrinkle-faced Bat”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Myotis yumanensis

“Yuma Myotis”

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