Summary ²

Ghost-faced Bats are mammals in the order Chiroptera and genus Mormoops. There are only two species within this genus: Mormoops blainvillii and Mormoops megalophylla. the Ghost-faced bat is distinguishable from its cousin M. blainvillii because of its much larger size. These mammals are nocturnal and hunt using echolocaiton.

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1. (c) Alex Borisenko, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.boldsystems.org/archive/image.php?id=bold.org/246480
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormoops_megalophylla

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• iNat taxon page
• AMNH Bats of the World
• Animal Diversity Web
• ASM Mammal Diversity Database
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• iNaturalist Mammal Working Group
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
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