Hairy Slit-Faced Bat

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Hairy Slit-Faced Bat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Nycteridae
Genus: Nycteris
Species: N. hispida
Binomial name
Nycteris hispida
Schreber, (1775)

The Hairy Slit-Faced Bat (Nycteris hispida) is a species of slit-faced bat that is widely distributed throughout forests and savannas in Africa. Two recognized subspecies exist: Nycteris hispida hispida and Nycteris hispida pallida. Various forest populations in western and central Africa may be a separate species, although that has not been positively identified as of 2007.

[edit] References

  • Mickleburgh, S., Hutson, A. & Bergmans, W. 2004. Nycteris hispida. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 13 April 2007.