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Hairy Slit-Faced Bat

Educational resources on Hairy Slit-Faced Bat

Hairy Slit-Faced Bat or Nycteris hispida is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Least Concern . IUCN Profile of the Hairy Slit-Faced Bat

Academic web links for the Hairy Slit-Faced Bat.


ADW: Nycteris hispida: Specimens
...hairy slit-faced bat Nycteris hispida: hairy slit-faced bat Nycteris hispida: hairy slit-faced bat Nycteris hispida : hairy slit-faced bat Nycteris hispida
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/specimens/Nycteris_hispida.html

ADW: Nycteridae: Specimens
...hairy slit-faced bat Nycteris hispida: hairy slit-faced bat Nycteris hispida: hairy slit-faced bat Nycteris hispida : hairy slit-faced bat Nycteris hispida
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/specimens/Nycteridae.html

ADW: Nycteris hispida: Information
The slit down a hairy slit-faced bat's face may have some role in echolocation. (Kingdon, 1984; Nowak, 1997) There are some kinds of social communication in this species.
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Nycteris_hispida.html

ADW: Nycteris hispida: Classification
Nycteris hispida (hairy slit-faced bat) ...
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Nycteris_hispida.html

ADW: nycteridae.jpg
Nycteris hispida (hairy slit-faced bat) ... University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/anatomical_images/family_pages/chiroptera/...

The Great Book of Bats by Bursk
Hairy, slit-faced bat, long-tongued bat. dog-faced bat, snout-nosed bat. Pages of them like mugshots:
www.wmich.edu/newissues/New_Issues_Titles/Bursk/Bursk_Page_Poem2.html

Mammal Species of the World - Browse: hispida
Hairy Slit-faced Bat: Type Locality: Senegal. Distribution: Senegal, Gambia, and extreme S Mauritania to Somalia and south to Angola, C Mozambique, Botswana, and Malawi; Zanzibar; Bioko
www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13801054

ADW: 38385.lateral.jpg
What's in a Scientific Name? Authority Lists: Where We Get Our Names Name, Rank ... Nycteris hispida (hairy slit-faced bat)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/skulls/nycteris/n._hispida/38385.lateral...

bat18
Hairy slit-faced bat, Africa. (Image taken from: Wilson, Don E. Bats in Question: The Smithsonian Answer Book. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution P, 1997 p.
www.pitt.edu/~slavic/courses/vampires/images/bats/rozha18.html

ADW: Nycteris: Classification
... Nycteris hispida (hairy slit-faced bat)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Nycteris.html







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