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Thyroptera
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Thyroptera

Disc-winged bats are a small group of bats of the family Thyropteridae. They are found in Central and South America, usually in moist tropical rain forests. It is a very small family, consisting of a single genus with five species.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species

Spix's Disk-winged Bat

speciesThyroptera tricolor

Peter's Disk-winged Bat

speciesThyroptera discifera

Laval's Disk-winged Bat

speciesThyroptera lavali

De Vivo's Disk-winged Bat

speciesThyroptera devivoi

Patricia's Disk-winged Bat

speciesThyroptera wynneae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 40633.