Spurrell's woolly bat

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Spurrell's woolly bat
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Kerivoula
Species:
K. phalaena
Binomial name
Kerivoula phalaena
Thomas, 1912

Spurrell's woolly bat (Kerivoula phalaena) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae named after Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell. It is found in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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<i>Kerivoula</i> Genus of bats

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References

  1. Monadjem, A.; Fahr, J. (2017). "Kerivoula phalaena". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T10984A22021608. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T10984A22021608.en.