Lesser Mouse-tailed Bat

Lesser Mouse-tailed Bat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Rhinopomatidae
Genus: Rhinopoma
Species: R. hardwickei
Binomial name
Rhinopoma hardwickei
Gray, 1831
Lesser Mouse-tailed Bat range
Synonyms

Rhinopoma hadithaensis Khajuria, 1988

The Lesser Mouse-tailed Bat (Rhinopoma hardwickei) is a species of bat in the Rhinopomatidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Thailand, Tunisia, and Yemen. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, rocky areas, caves, subterranean habitats (other than caves), and hot deserts.

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