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Phyllostomidae

Home Bats Yangochiroptera Phyllostomidae
Location
Classification
Woolly False Vampire Bat Chrotopterus auritus 23012012 2
Image credit Jose Gabriel Martinez Fonseca
Chrotopterus auritus

“Big-eared Woolly Bat”

Jason Corbett
Macrotus californicus

“California Leaf-nosed Bat”

Jose Gabriel Martinez Fonseca
Desmodus rotundus

“Common Vampire Bat”

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

“Fringe-lipped Bat”

Konrad Wothe/Minden Pictures
Ectophylla alba

“Honduran White Bat”

Sherri & Brock Fenton
Phyllonycteris aphylla

“Jamaican Flower Bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Artibeus jamaicensis

“Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Leptonycteris yerbabuenae

“Lesser Long-nosed Bat”

Charles M. Francis
Vampyressa thyone

“Little yellow-eared bat”

Dr. Winifred Frick
Leptonycteris nivalis

“Mexican Long-nosed Bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Choeronycteris mexicana

“Mexican Long-tongued Bat”

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

“Spectral Bat, Greater False Vampire Bat”

Dr. Rodrigo Medellin
Musonycteris harrisoni

“Trumpet-nosed bat”

Staff Pick: Mike Daulton
Bruce D. Taubert
Centurio senex

“Wrinkle-faced Bat”

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