Biology:Peropteryx
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Short description: Genus of bats
| Peropteryx | |
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| Peropteryx kappleri | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Emballonuridae |
| Genus: | Peropteryx Peters, 1867 |
| Type species | |
| Vespertilio caninus Wied-Newied, 1821
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| Species | |
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Peropteryx kappleri | |
Peropteryx is a genus of 5 species of bat in the family Emballonuridae,[1]
namely:
- Greater dog-like bat (Peropteryx kappleri)
- White-winged dog-like bat (Peropteryx leucoptera)
- Lesser dog-like bat (Peropteryx macrotis)
- Pale-winged dog-like bat (Peropteryx pallidoptera) [2]
- Trinidad dog-like bat (Peropteryx trinitatis)
References
- ↑ Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Chiroptera", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 312–529, ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0, https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=13801025, retrieved 28 September 2009
- ↑ Lim, Burton K.; Engstrom, Mark D.; Reid, Fiona A.; Simmons, Nancy B.; Voss, Robert S.; Fleck, David W. (2010). "A New Species of Peropteryx (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae) from Western Amazonia with Comments on Phylogenetic Relationships within the Genus". American Museum Novitates (3686): 1–20. doi:10.1206/691.1. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/2246/6070/1/N3686.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q133521 entry
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