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around the world. The
earliest fossil records are from the Eocene. The
emballonurids include some of the
smallest of all bats, and
range from 3.5 to 10 cm...
- and part of the
microbat suborder.
Members of this
family are
called emballonurids, and
include sheath-tailed bats, sac-winged bats, and tomb bats. They...
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early bat Archaeonycteris, an
early bat Tachypteron, a
possible emballonurid or
miniopterid bat Palaeotis, an
early struthionid Strigogyps sapea (formerly...
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Afrillonura is an
extinct genus of
emballonurid that
inhabited Namibia during the
Middle Miocene. It
contains the
species A. namibensis. Rosina, Valentina;...
- be
analogous to that of wing sacs in
other emballonurids. When breeding, the wing sacs of
other emballonurids become enlarged to
attract females. The ****...
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signified active feeding. This was the
first recorded phenomenon of an
emballonurid bat
being pre**** on by an invertebrate, and the
first do****ented proof...
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Arnhem sheath-tailed bat or
Arnhem tomb bat (Taphozous kapalgensis) is an
emballonurid bat
found at the Top End of Australia. The
species is also
referred to...
- from
Africa in as many as five dispersals,
starting in the Eocene.
Emballonurids may have also
reached South America from
Africa about 30 Ma ago, based...
- 0.55 in).
Females tend to be
somewhat larger than males. As with all
emballonurid bats, short-eared bats use a type of
echolocation call that consists...
