Summary ²

The harlequin bat (Scotomanes ornatus) is a species of bat in the family Vespertilionidae, the vesper bats. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Scotomanes.

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1. (c) The Darwin Initiative Centre for Bat Research, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://csdb.ioz.ac.cn/images/Upload_images/Animalia/Chordata/Mammalia/CHIROPTERA/Vespertilionidae/Scotomanes/ornatus/462AEA7C-185C-4137-AF31-A0B0EEC512D4.jpg
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotomanes_ornatus

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