Taiwan Big-eared Bat
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The Taiwan Big-Eared Bat (Plecotus taivanus) is a species of vesper bat
in the Vespertilionidae family.
It is found only in Taiwan
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Vesper bat
Vesper bats , also known as Evening bats or Common bats, are the largest and best-known family of bats. They belong to the suborder Microchiroptera . There are over three hundred species distributed all over the world, on every continent except Antarctica...
in the Vespertilionidae family.
It is found only in Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
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Source
- Chiroptera Specialist Group 1996. Plecotus taivanus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 July 2007.