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Bamboo Bats
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Bamboo Bats

Tylonycteris

The bamboo bats are a genus of vesper bats in the genus Tylonycteris. The name translates as "padded bat", and refers to the presence of hairless fleshy pads on the hands and feet, which the bats use to help them grip onto bamboo. The species in this genus roost within bamboo shoots.

The species within this genus are:

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 6 known species

Indomalayan Lesser Bamboo Bat

speciesTylonycteris fulvida

Lesser Bamboo Bat

speciesTylonycteris pachypus

Malayan Greater Bamboo Bat

speciesTylonycteris malayana

Tonkin Bamboo Bat

speciesTylonycteris tonkinensis

greater bamboo bat

speciesTylonycteris robustula

Pygmy Bamboo Bat

speciesTylonycteris pygmaea

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 40442.