Bats of Africa

A comprehensive checklist of bats occurring in Africa and surrounding islands.

This is the companion guide for the AfriBats project:
www.inaturalist.org/projects/afribats

Aba roundleaf bat 1
Hipposideros abae
Benito roundleaf bat 1
Hipposideros beatus
Sundevall's roundleaf bat 2
Hipposideros caffer
Cameroon leaf-nosed bat 2
Hipposideros camerunensis
Commerson's roundleaf bat 3
Hipposideros commersonii
Short-tailed roundleaf bat
Hipposideros curtus
Cyclops roundleaf bat 1
Hipposideros cyclops
Sooty Roundleaf Bat 1
Hipposideros fuliginosus
Giant leaf-nosed bat 4
Hipposideros gigas
Jones's roundleaf bat 1
Hipposideros jonesi
Lamotte's roundleaf bat 1
Hipposideros lamottei
Aellen's roundleaf bat 5
Hipposideros marisae
Ethiopian large-eared roundleaf bat
Hipposideros megalotis
Noack's roundleaf bat 6
Hipposideros ruber
Hipposideros tephrus
São Tomé leaf-nosed bat 6
Hipposideros thomensis
Striped leaf-nosed bat 1
Hipposideros vittatus
Somali trident leaf-nosed bat
Asellia italosomalica
Patrizi's trident leaf-nosed bat
Asellia patrizii
Geoffroy's trident leaf-nosed bat 5
Asellia tridens

Edited by Jakob Fahr, Natalie Weber, and Carrie Seltzer, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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