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bumblee bat or hog-nosed bat
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Bumblee bat and hog-nosed bat

Order : Chiroptera
Family : Craseonycteridae

Facts about the family Craseonycteridae, the bumblee bat and hog-nosed bat

This interersting species was discovered for the first time in Thailand in 1973, and Craseonycteridae is therefore the most recently described family of bats (Hill, 1974). (Full text)

ITIS TNS Google MSN Craseonycteris thonglongyai, the hog-nosed bat, is the smallest mammal in the world. (Full text)

The Kitti’s hog-nosed bat is the world’s smallest mammal, even smaller than a shrew. (Full text)

The smallest bat, the Kitti’s hog-nosed bat, is also the smallest known mammal. (Full text)

; Thailand; photo © 1995 David Cannatella Rhinopomatoidea (Microchiroptera) This interersting species was discovered for the first time in Thailand in 1973, and Craseonycteridae is therefore the most recently described family of bats (Hill, 1974). (Full text)

The Bumblee Bat is the smallest bat. (Full text)

bat, the Kitti’s hog-nosed bat, is also the smallest known mammal. (Full text)

(The smallest species – the Kitti's hog-nosed bat – is about the size of a bumblebee and is thought to be the worlds smallest mammal! (Full text)

The Kitti’s hog-nosed bat is the world’s smallest mammal, even smaller than a shrew. (Full text)

Jensen BA; Hahn MEcDNA cloning and characterization of a high affinity aryl hydrocarbon receptor in a cetacean, the beluga, Delphinapterus leucas50 30130 2001 TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 16(10):562-570 Gatesy J; O'Leary MADeciphering whale origins with molecules and fossils72 31431 2002 ACTA CHIROPTEROLOGICA 4(2):107-120 Hulva P; Horacek ICraseonycteris thonglongyai (Chiroptera : Craseonycteridae) is a rhinolophoid: molecular evidence from cytochrome b00 (Full text)

" The caves which are the habitat of hog-nosed bat are known only in the dry evergreen and semi-evergreen forests in the west of Thailand. (Full text)

2002: Craseonycteris thonglongyai (Chiroptera: Craseonycteridae) is a rhinolophoid: molecular evidence from cytochrome b. (Full text)

Intricate details of the skull of the tiny hog-nosed bat are revealed using the CT scanner. (Full text)

Craseonycteris thonglongyai (Chiroptera: Craseonycteridae) is a rhinolophoid: Molecular evidence from cytochrome b. (Full text)