The New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat is a small-sized omnivorous mammal endemic to the islands of New Zealand. It is one of two extant and three overall terrestrial mammal species unique to New Zea
Mystacina tuberculata
Illustration of an individual
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Lesser short-tailed bats roosting
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Bats are winged mammals, the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, using long, spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane or patagium. T
New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat
…Conservation status Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Placentalia Order: Chiroptera Family: Mystacinidae Genus: Mystacina Species: M. tuberculata Binomial name Mystacina tuberculata Gray, 1843 Subspecies M. t. tuberculata M. t. aupourica…
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The early Eocene fossil microchiropteran Icaronycteris, from the Green River Formation
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"Chiroptera" from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904