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The David long-footed bat is a very small bat with a comparatively short tail. It reaches a head-trunk length of 41 to 44 millimeters and a tail length of 30 to 43 millimeters. The hind feet have a length of 7 to 9 millimeters. The ears measure 12 to 15 millimeters. [1] The forearm length is 31 to 35 millimeters, the calcar is formed long and the flight skin is at the basal part of the toes. [1] The tibia is 12 to 13 millimeters long, so that the foot length equivalent to more than half the length of the leg. The back is dark brown with slightly lighter hair tips, the ventral side is slightly lighter due to gray hair tips.

The skull is stocky with a very short snout region (rostrum). The third upper premolar P3 is small and displaced from the row of teeth to the inner side, whereby the adjacent premolars P2 and P4 are in direct contact. The lower premolar p3 is also reduced in size and offset inwards; here, however, the likewise smaller adjacent premolars p2 and p4 are not in contact.

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1. (c) Aleksandar, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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