Hairy-tailed bats | |
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Hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Vespertilionidae |
Tribe: | Lasiurini |
Genus: | Lasiurus Gray, 1831 |
Type species | |
Vespertilio borealis (Müller, 1776) | |
Species | |
20, see text. |
Lasiurus is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae. Its members are known as hairy-tailed bats or red bats. [1]
The following is the relationship of the three genera formerly included within Lasiurus, based on an analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. [2]
The following are the described species in Lasiurus: