Brandt's Bat

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Brandt's Bat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Suborder: Microchiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Myotis
Species: M. brandti
Binomial name
Myotis brandti
Eversmann, 1845

Brandt's Bat (Myotis brandtii) is a species of vesper bat in the Vespertilionidae family. It can be found in the following countries: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.

It is named for the German zoologist Johann Friedrich von Brandt.

[edit] Echolocation

The frequencies used by this bat species for echolocation lie between 32-103 kHz, have most energy at 51 kHz and have an average duration of 4.2 ms. [1][2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Parsons, S. and Jones, G. (2000) 'Acoustic identification of twelve species of echolocating bat by discriminant function analysis and artificial neural networks.' J Exp Biol., 203: 2641-2656.
  2. ^ Obrist, M.K., Boesch, R. and Flückiger, P.F. (2004) 'Variability in echolocation call design of 26 Swiss bat species: Consequences, limits and options for automated field identification with a synergic pattern recognition approach.' Mammalia., 68 (4): 307-32.

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