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Vespertilionidae

Home Bats Yangochiroptera Vespertilionidae
Location
Classification
Staff Pick: Dr. Kristen Jonasson
Zach Pezzillo
Lasiurus semotus

“‘Ōpe‘ape‘a, Hawaiian Hoary Bat”

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”

Brandt's Myotis
Myotis brandtii

“Brandt’s myotis”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Myotis californicus

“California Myotis”

J. Scott Altenbach
Parastrellus hesperus

“Canyon Bat”

J. Scott Altenbach
Myotis velifer

“Cave Myotis”

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”

Richard Jackson
Myotis vivesi

“Fish-eating myotis”

J. Scott Altenbach
Myotis thysanodes

“Fringed Myotis”

J. Scott Altenbach
Myotis grisescens

“Gray Myotis”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Lasiurus cinereus

“Hoary Bat”

Jim Kennedy
Myotis sodalis

“Indiana Myotis”

J. Scott Altenbach
Myotis keenii

“Keen’s Myotis”

Jason Corbett
Myotis lucifugus

“Little Brown Myotis”

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

“Long-eared Myotis”

J. Scott Altenbach
Myotis volans

“Long-legged Myotis”

J. Scott Altenbach
Myotis septentrionalis

“Northern Long-eared Bat”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Lasiurus intermedius

“Northern Yellow Bat”

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

“Pallid 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”

Michael Durham / Minden Pictures
Euderma maculatum

“Spotted Bat”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Corynorhinus townsendii

“Townsend’s Big-eared Bat”

Perimyotis subflavus

“Tricolored 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”

Michael Durham/Minden Pictures
Myotis yumanensis

“Yuma Myotis”

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