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New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat
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New Zealand short-tailed bats

Order : Chiroptera
Family : Mystacinidae
Genus : Mystacina

Facts about the genus Mystacina, the New Zealand short-tailed bats

suggested that Mystacina is the sister-group of all other noctilionoids, a hypothesis which is compatible with available morphological data. (Full text)

DNA-DNA hybridisation indicates Mystacina is the most basal group in the Noctilionoidea (Kirsch et al. (Full text)