| Megaerops | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Pteropodidae |
| Genus: | Megaerops Peters, 1865 |
| Type species | |
| Pachysoma ecaudatum Temminck, 1837 | |
| Species | |
Megaerops ecaudatus | |
Megaerops is a genus of megabat. [1]
It includes the following species:
Coenraad Jacob Temminck was a Dutch aristocrat, zoologist and museum director.
The New World leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae) are found from southern North America to South America, specifically from the Southwest United States to northern Argentina. They are ecologically the most varied and diverse family within the order Chiroptera. Most species are insectivorous, but the phyllostomid bats include within their number true predatory species and frugivores. For example, the spectral bat, the largest bat in the Americas, eats vertebrate prey, including small, dove-sized birds. Members of this family have evolved to use food groups such as fruit, nectar, pollen, insects, frogs, other bats, and small vertebrates, and in the case of the vampire bats, even blood.
The tailless fruit bat is a species of fruit bat in the family Pteropodidae.
The white-collared fruit bat is a species of megabat found in Southeast Asia.
The tailed tailless bat is a species of leaf-nosed bat from South America.
Geoffroy's tailless bat is a species of phyllostomid bat from the American tropics.
The tube-lipped nectar bat is a bat from Ecuador. It was described in 2005. It has a remarkably long tongue, which it uses to drink nectar. It additionally consumes pollen and insects.
Anoura is a genus of leaf-nosed bats from Central and South America. Anoura members lack or have a short tail, and are nectarivorous bats of small to medium size among the Phyllostomidae.
Coelops is a genus of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It contains the following species:
The Javan Tailless Fruit Bat is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Indonesia.
Glossophaginae is a subfamily of leaf-nosed bats.
Anoura peruana is a species of bat from Colombia and Peru. It was elevated to a species in 2010, after previously being considered a subspecies of Geoffroy's tailless bat. The females are larger than the males.
Cadena's tailless bat is a species of bat native to Colombia. In 2006 it was described as a separate species from the tailed tailless bat species complex.
The subfamily Cynopterinae comprises 24 species of pteropodid bats distributed exclusively in South and Southeast Asia.
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