Lord Howe Long-Eared Bat | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Vespertilionidae |
Genus: | Nyctophilus |
Species: | N. howensis |
Binomial name | |
Nyctophilus howensis McKean, 1975 |
The Lord Howe Long-Eared Bat (Nyctophilus howensis) is a species of vesper bat in the Vespertilionidae family. It is known only from a single skull found on Lord Howe Island in 1972 and dated to the 20th century. It may thus be extinct; if not it is certainly endangered.