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Tadarida teniotis
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species of mammal
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Tadarida teniotis is a species of mammal classified within the family Molossidae, order Chiroptera, and class Mammalia. It belongs to the genus Tadarida and is commonly known as the European free-tailed bat, among other names. The organism is part of the phylum Chordata and kingdom Animalia.
This species inhabits forests and has a recorded longest observed lifespan of 13 years. Its IUCN conservation status is listed as Least Concern, a designation from 2016. Records of the species have been documented in countries including Syria, China, Italy, Lebanon, and Egypt.
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Vinony's link graph records 157 inbound references to Tadarida teniotis, and connects out to IUCN Red List, Animalia and European Union.
Vinony files it under Bats of Africa, Bats of Asia and Bats of Europe.
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Species
Least ConcernEuropean Free-tailed Bat
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderChiroptera
- FamilyMolossidae
via GBIF · IUCN
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 101
- With media
- 9
- Family
- Molossidae
- Collections
- MVZ, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UAZ, CUMV, USNM, ROM
- Recorded in
- Syria, China, Italy, Lebanon, Egypt, Laos, Morocco, Israel
Bird sounds
- echolocation· France· quality A
- social call· France· quality A
- echolocation· Greece· quality A
- echolocation· Greece· quality A
via Xeno-canto
Wikidata facts
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- taxon name
- Tadarida teniotis
- Commons category
- Tadarida teniotis
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon rank
- species
- Commons gallery
- Tadarida teniotis
- taxon common name
- esperteyu rabudu
- longest observed lifespan
- 13
- habitat
- forest
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Encyclopedic overview
The European free-tailed bat (Tadarida teniotis, sometimes given as Tadarida insignis) is a species of free-tailed bat found in the Old World. Other common names include the bulldog bat and the mastiff bat because of the presence of wrinkling on the snout. This bat is found in the Mediterranean region of Europe and in scattered locations across Asia at altitudes from sea level to 3100 m. The range of distribution is from the Canary Islands and Madeira through the whole Mediterranean area, Asia Minor, the Caucasus and the Middle East. In the north to southern France, southern Germany, Switzerland, Croatia and Bulgaria. It was reported from Korea in 1931, but has not been sighted on the Korean Peninsula since then. Populations in Japan, Taiwan and Korea are now considered to be a separate species Tadarida insignis.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tadarida teniotis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.