Northern ghost bat
The northern ghost bat, Diclidurus albus, is a bat species from South America, Trinidad, and Central America. It is a relatively rare, completely white, insectivorous bat, with an unusual sac at the base of its tail. Specimens infected with rabies have been found in Trinidad.
Habitat
Roosts can be found in caves, deep rock crevices, and old mines. Although ghost bats prefer to roost in colonies, they currently only roost in small groups at best due to a lack of roosting sites that support larger colonies. It is unusual for there to be a colony of more than 100 bats in one location. It often roosts singly under palm leaves.
References
Extant species of family Emballonuridae |
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- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Infraclass: Eutheria
- Superorder: Laurasiatheria
- Order: Chiroptera
| | Balantiopteryx |
- Ecuadorian Sac-Winged Bat (B. infusca)
- Thomas's Sac-Winged Bat (B. io)
- Gray Sac-winged Bat (B. plicata)
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| Centronycteris |
- Thomas's Shaggy Bat (C. centralis)
- Shaggy Bat (C. maximiliani)
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| Coleura |
- African Sheath-tailed Bat (C. afra)
- Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat (C. seychellensis)
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| Cormura |
- Chestnut Sac-winged Bat (C. brevirostris)
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| Cyttarops |
- Short-eared Bat (C. alecto)
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| Diclidurus (Ghost bats) |
- Northern Ghost Bat (D. albus)
- Greater Ghost Bat (D. ingens)
- Isabelle's Ghost Bat (D. isabellus)
- Lesser Ghost Bat (D. scutatus)
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| Emballonura |
- Small Asian Sheath-tailed Bat (E. alecto)
- Peters's sheath-tailed bat (E. atrata)
- Beccari's Sheath-tailed Bat (E. beccarii)
- Large-eared Sheath-tailed Bat (E. dianae)
- Greater Sheath-tailed Bat (E. furax)
- Lesser Sheath-tailed Bat (E. monticola)
- Raffray's Sheath-tailed Bat (E. raffrayana)
- Pacific Sheath-tailed Bat (E. semicaudata)
- Seri's Sheath-tailed Bat (E. serii)
- Western Sheath-tailed Bat (E. tiavato)
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| Mosia |
- Dark Sheath-tailed Bat (M. nigrescens)
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| Peropteryx |
- Greater Dog-like Bat (P. kappleri)
- White-winged Dog-like Bat (P. leucoptera)
- Lesser Dog-like Bat (P. macrotis)
- Pale-winged Dog-like Bat (P. pallidoptera)
- Trinidad Dog-like Bat (P. trinitatis)
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| Rhynchonycteris | |
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| Saccolaimus | |
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| Saccopteryx |
- Antioquian Sac-winged Bat (S. antioquensis)
- Greater Sac-winged Bat (S. bilineata)
- Frosted Sac-winged Bat (S. canescens)
- Amazonian Sac-winged Bat (S. gymnura)
- Lesser Sac-winged Bat (S. leptura)
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| Taphozous |
- Indonesian Tomb Bat (T. achates)
- Coastal tomb bat (T. australis)
- Sharp-nosed tomb bat (T. georgianus)
- Hamilton's Tomb Bat (T. hamiltoni)
- Hildegarde's Tomb Bat (T. hildegardeae)
- Hill's Tomb Bat (T. hilli)
- Arnham Tomb Bat (T. kapalgensis)
- Long-winged Tomb Bat (T. longimanus)
- Mauritian Tomb Bat (T. mauritianus)
- Black-bearded Tomb Bat (T. melanopogon)
- Naked-rumped Tomb Bat (T. nudiventris)
- Egyptian Tomb Bat (T. perforatus)
- Theobald's Tomb Bat (T. theobaldi)
- Troughton's Sheath-tailed Bat (T. troughtoni)
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