- 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...
-
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...
- Yangochiroptera, the
others being Noctilionoidea and Vespertilionoidea.
Emballonurids are also
known as sheath-tailed bats and sac-winged bats: the latter...
-
pattern of
foraging in its home range, a
feature shared with
other emballonurids. It is an
aerial insectivore. Sampaio, E.; Lim, B.; Peters, S. (2016)...
- (pteropodids)
Microbats (microchiropterans) Sac-winged or sheath-tailed bats (
emballonurids)
Rhinopomatoid bats Mouse-tailed bats (rhinopomatids)
Bumblebee bat...
- be
analogous to that of wing sacs in
other emballonurids. When breeding, the wing sacs of
other emballonurids become enlarged to
attract females. The ****...
- 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...
-
although an
elevation to
genus accords with a 1991
revision of
Australian emballonurids. The type
species is
Taphozous saccolaimus,
published by
Coenraad Jacob...
-
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...
- PMID 34748674. S2CID 243861841. Rosina, V.; Pickford, M. (2022). "The new
small emballonurid (Emballonuridae, Chiroptera, Mammalia) from the
Miocene of Africa: its...
