Little Free-tailed Bat

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Little Free-tailed Bat
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Chiroptera Family: Molossidae Genus: Chaerephon Species: C. pumilus
Binomial name
Chaerephon pumilus (Cretzschmar, 1826)

The Little Free-tailed Bat (Chaerephon pumilus) is a species of bat in the Molossidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and urban areas.

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• Mickleburgh, S., Hutson, A., Bergmans, W. & Cotterill, F.W. 2004. Chaerephon pumila. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 30 July 2007.