Greater Mouse-tailed Bat

Greater Mouse-tailed Bat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Rhinopomatidae
Genus: Rhinopoma
Species: R. microphyllum
Binomial name
Rhinopoma microphyllum
(Brünnich, 1792)
Greater Mouse-tailed Bat range

The Greater Mouse-tailed Bat (Rhinopoma microphyllum) is a species of bat in the Rhinopomatidae family. It is found in Algeria, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sudan, Thailand, Tunisia, and Yemen. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.They mate at the beginning of spring.

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