Cape hairy bat
Cape hairy bat | |
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Conservation status | |
![]() Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Vespertilionidae |
Genus: | Myotis |
Species: | M. tricolor |
Binomial name | |
Myotis tricolor (Temminck, 1832)[2] | |
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Distribution of Cape hairy bat |
The Cape hairy bat, also known as little brown bat, Temminck's mouse-eared bat, Cape myotis, tricoloured mouse-eared bat, Cape hairy myotis, Temminck's hairy bat and three-coloured bat (Myotis tricolor) is a species of vesper bat that is found in Sub-Saharan Africa.[3]
Description
The Cape hairy bat is a diminutive bat which is very similar in appearance to the even more diminutive rufous mouse-eared bat. It has orangey to rufous fur on its back with slightly paler fur on the underparts, the fur is long, erect and his soft to the touch. Each hair is dark at its base and coppery-red towards the tips. it has relatively broad wings which are dark brown contrasting with the bright fur of the body. It has a plain face with no nose leaf and with moderately large brown ears which have a long narrow tragus.[4] It weighs an average of 13.9g and the forelimb length is 49.5mm.[5]
Distribution
The Cape hairy bat has only been recorded from the uplands of north-westernLiberia in West Africa and form a few places in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda in central Africa. It occurs much more widely in East Africa, ranging from Ethiopia in the north, south through to southern South Africa.[4]
Habitat
The Cape hairy bat requires suitable cave and is restricted to mountainous and rocky regions where these caves at found and its absence from flat treeless areas.[4] It will roost in abandoned mines and generally prefers large caverns which contain pools of water.[1] Hunting bats have been recorded in dry and moist savanna, and in mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.[1]
Habits
The Cape hairy bat forages for aerial insects along the edges of vegetation, where it captures species from the insect orders Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Diptera, Neuroptera and Hymenoptera.[4]
The Cape hairy bat is a sociable species which roosts in caves. It switches between winter hibernation roosts and summer maternity caves, an occupied cave may contain up to 1500 individual bats. In KwaZulu Natal copulation occurred in May and the females stored the sperm until using it to fertilise the ovum in September, the young were born in November and December, the suckled for six weeks after birth. Each female give birth to a single baby and they gather together in maternity roosts to do so.[4]
References
- ^ a b c Monadjem, A.; Jacobs, D. (2017). "Myotis tricolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T14207A22063832. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T14207A22063832.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ "Myotis tricolor (Temminck, 1832)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) (https://www.itis.gov). Retrieved 2016-11-14.
- ^ "Myotis tricolor". Mammal's Planet. Charles Boudet. Archived from the original on 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
- ^ a b c d e "African Bat Conservation Species Guide to Bats of Malawi" (PDF). African Bat Conservation. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-03-05. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
- ^ "Myotis tricolor". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
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- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Chiroptera
- Family: Vespertilionidae
- Subfamily: Myotinae
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- Southern myotis (M. aelleni)
- Silver-tipped myotis (M. albescens)
- Myotis alcathoe (M. alcathoe)
- Szechwan myotis (M. altarium)
- Anjouan myotis (M. anjouanensis)
- Annamit myotis (M. annamiticus)
- M. annatessae
- Hairy-faced bat (M. annectans)
- Atacama myotis (M. atacamensis)
- Peters's myotis (M. ater)
- Sir David Attenborough's myotis (M. attenboroughi)
- Southwestern myotis (M. auriculus)
- Australian myotis (M. australis)
- Southeastern myotis (M. austroriparius)
- Chestnut myotis (M. badius)
- M. bartelsi
- Bechstein's bat (M. bechsteinii)
- Lesser mouse-eared bat (M. blythii)
- Rufous mouse-eared bat (M. bocagii)
- Far Eastern myotis (M. bombinus)
- Brandt's bat (M. brandtii)
- Bocharic myotis (M. bucharensis)
- California myotis (M. californicus)
- Long-fingered bat (M. capaccinii)
- Chilean myotis (M. chiloensis)
- Large myotis (M. chinensis)
- Western small-footed bat (M. ciliolabrum)
- Guatemalan myotis (M. cobanensis)
- Cryptic myotis (Myotis crypticus)
- Csorba's mouse-eared bat (M. csorbai)
- Pond bat (M. dasycneme)
- Daubenton's bat (M. daubentonii)
- David's myotis (M. davidii)
- Kock's mouse-eared bat (M. dieteri)
- M. diminutus
- Dominican myotis (M. dominicensis)
- Elegant myotis (M. elegans)
- Geoffroy's bat (M. emarginatus)
- M. escalerai
- Long-eared myotis (M. evotis)
- M. fimbriatus
- Findley's myotis (M. findleyi)
- M. flavus
- Hodgson's bat (M. formosus)
- Cinnamon myotis (M. fortidens)
- Fraternal myotis (M. frater)
- Gomantong myotis (M. gomantongensis)
- Malagasy mouse-eared bat (M. goudoti)
- Gray bat (M. grisescens)
- Armenian whiskered bat (M. hajastanicus)
- M. handleyi
- Lesser large-footed bat (M. hasseltii)
- Herman's myotis (M. hermani)
- Horsfield's bat (M. horsfieldii)
- M. hyrcanicus
- Ikonnikov's bat (M. ikonnikovi)
- M. indochinensis
- Insular myotis (M. insularum)
- M. izecksohni
- Hairy-legged myotis (M. keaysi)
- Keen's myotis (M. keenii)
- Chinese water myotis (M. laniger)
- M. lavali
- Eastern small-footed myotis (M. leibii)
- Yellowish myotis (M. levis)
- Kashmir cave bat (M. longipes)
- Little brown bat (M. lucifugus)
- Eastern long-fingered bat (M. macrodactylus)
- M. macropus
- Pallid large-footed myotis (M. macrotarsus)
- Schwartz's myotis (M. martiniquensis)
- Dark-nosed small-footed myotis (M. melanorhinus)
- M. midastactus
- Maluku myotis (M. moluccarum)
- Burmese whiskered bat (M. montivagus)
- Morris's bat (M. morrisi)
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat (M. muricola)
- Greater mouse-eared bat (M. myotis)
- Whiskered bat (M. mystacinus)
- Natterer's bat (M. nattereri)
- Curacao myotis (M. nesopolus)
- Black myotis (M. nigricans)
- Nimba mountain bat (M. nimbaensis)
- Nepal myotis (M. nipalensis)
- M. nyctor
- Arizona myotis (M. occultus)
- Singapore whiskered bat (M. oreias)
- Montane myotis (M. oxyotus)
- Peninsular myotis (M. peninsularis)
- Beijing mouse-eared bat (M. pequinius)
- Eastern water bat (M. petax)
- M. phanluongi
- Flat-headed myotis (M. planiceps)
- Frosted myotis (M. pruinosus)
- Felten's myotis (M. punicus)
- Rickett's big-footed bat (M. ricketti)
- Ridley's bat (M. ridleyi)
- Riparian myotis (M. riparius)
- Thick-thumbed myotis (M. rosseti)
- Red myotis (M. ruber)
- Schaub's myotis (M. schaubi)
- Scott's mouse-eared bat (M. scotti)
- Northern long-eared bat (M. septentrionalis)
- M. sibiricus
- Mandelli's mouse-eared bat (M. sicarius)
- Himalayan whiskered bat (M. siligorensis)
- Velvety myotis (M. simus)
- Indiana bat (M. sodalis)
- Kei myotis (M. stalkeri)
- M. taiwanensis
- Fringed myotis (M. thysanodes)
- Cape hairy bat (M. tricolor)
- Cave myotis (M. velifer)
- M. vivesi
- Long-legged myotis (M. volans)
- Welwitsch's bat (M. welwitschii)
- Yanbaru whiskered bat (M. yanbarensis)
- Yuma myotis (M. yumanensis)
- Zenati myotis (Myotis zenatius)
- S. caliginosus
- Taiwan broad-muzzled myotis (S. latirostris)
- S. moupinensis