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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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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 ****...
- Yangochiroptera, the
others being Noctilionoidea and Vespertilionoidea.
Emballonurids are also
known as sheath-tailed bats and sac-winged bats: the latter...
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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...
- 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...
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Society of Mammalogists.
Members of the
Emballonuridae family are
called emballonurids, and
include sheath-tailed bats, sac-winged bats,
ghost bats, pouched...
- (pteropodids)
Microbats (microchiropterans) Sac-winged or sheath-tailed bats (
emballonurids)
Rhinopomatoid bats Mouse-tailed bats (rhinopomatids)
Bumblebee bat...
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derived from
convergent evolution. More recently, a
relationship with
emballonurid bats has been proposed,
possibly as a
basal member descended from the...
