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Spurrell's free tailed bat

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Chiroptera

Genus
  
Mops

Higher classification
  
Mops

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Molossidae

Scientific name
  
Mops spurrelli

Rank
  
Species

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The Spurrell's free-tailed bat (Mops spurrelli) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae named after Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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Spurrell's free-tailed bat Wikipedia