Intermediate Slit-Faced Bat

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Intermediate Slit-Faced Bat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Nycteridae
Genus: Nycteris
Species: N. intermedia
Binomial name
Nycteris intermedia
Aellen, 1959

The Intermediate Slit-Faced Bat (Nycteris intermedia) is a species of slit-faced bat living in forest and savanna regions of west and central Africa. It is easily confused with Nycteris arge and Nycteris nana. N. Intermedia is broadly distributed, but is classified as near-threatened because of the threat of predicted habitat loss. It is much more restricted to true rainforest than is N. arge.

[edit] References

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