CHIROPTERA Blumenbach, 1779
(bats)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
images
No of
ID refs
Family 2 subtaxa 7 images 2 ident. refs
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Genus 2 subtaxa 7 images 2 ident. refs
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Family 6 subtaxa 84 images 1 ident. refs
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Unidentified 6 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
OrderCHIROPTERA (bats)
ClassMAMMALIA (mammals)
SuperclassTETRAPODA (a superclass of unassigneds)
PhylumCHORDATA (vertebrates)
SuperphylumDEUTEROSTOMIA (deuterostomes)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Stebbings, R.E. 1986 Which Bat is that? 49pp, The Mammal Society
Walters, C.L. et al 2012 A continental-scale tool for acoustic identification of European bats Journal of Applied Ecology: doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02182.x.

CHIROPTERA (bats) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CHIROPTERA (bats)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 160 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CHIROPTERA (bats)
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