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Chalinolobus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Chiroptera

Scientific name
  
Chalinolobus

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Vespertilionidae

Higher classification
  
Vespertilioninae

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Lower classifications
  
Gould's wattled bat, New Zealand long‑taile, Chocolate wattled bat, Large‑eared pied bat, Little pied bat

Bats of the genus Chalinolobus are commonly known as pied, wattled, or long-tailed bats. They have fleshy lobes at the bottom edge of their ears and on their lower lips. The bats otherwise classified in the genus Glauconycteris are included in Chalinolobus by some zoologists.

Species

  • Large-eared pied bat (Chalinolobus dwyeri)
  • Gould's wattled bat (Chalinolobus gouldii)
  • Chocolate wattled bat (Chalinolobus morio)
  • New Caledonia wattled bat (Chalinolobus neocaledonicus), sometimes treated as a subspecies of C. gouldii
  • Hoary wattled bat (Chalinolobus nigrogriseus)
  • Little pied bat (Chalinolobus picatus )
  • New Zealand long-tailed bat or long-tailed wattled bat (Chalinolobus tuberculatus)

    • References

    Chalinolobus Wikipedia
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