long-eared bat

English

A long-eared bat

Noun

long-eared bat (plural long-eared bats)

1. Any of many vesper bats with ears longer than bats of similar size, especially the brown long-eared bat or common long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus), of Eurasia.

Derived terms

• alpine long-eared bat (Plecotus macrobullaris)
• Angolan long-eared bat (Laephotis angolensis)
• Arnhem long-eared bat (Nyctophilus arnhemensis)
• Botswanan long-eared bat (Laephotis botswanae)
• brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus)
• common long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus)
• Corben's long-eared bat (Nyctophilus corbeni)
• desert long-eared bat (Otonycteris hemprichii)
• De Winton's long-eared bat (Laephotis wintoni)
• eastern long-eared bat (Nyctophilus bifax)
• Gould's long-eared bat (Nyctophilus gouldi)
• greater long-eared bat (Nyctophilus corbeni)
• grey long-eared bat (Plecotus austriacus)
• Japanese long-eared bat (Plecotus sacrimontis)
• Kolombatovic's long-eared bat (Plecotus kolombatovici)
• lesser long-eared bat (Nyctophilus geoffroyi)
• Lord Howe long-eared bat (Nyctophilus howensis)
• mountain long-eared bat (Plecotus macrobullaris)
• Mount Missim long-eared bat (Nyctophilus shirleyae)
• Namib long-eared bat (Laephotis namibensis)
• New Caledonian long-eared bat (Nyctophilus nebulosus)
• New Guinea long-eared bat (Nyctophilus microtis)
• northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis, Nyctophilus arnhemensis, Nyctophilus daedalus)
• Ognev's long-eared bat (Plecotus ognevi)
• pygmy long-eared bat (Nyctophilus walkeri)
• Sardinian long-eared bat (Plecotus sardus)
• small-toothed long-eared bat (Nyctophilus microdon)
• southeastern long-eared bat (Nyctophilus corbeni)
• Sunda long-eared bat (Nyctophilus heran)
• Tasmanian long-eared bat (Nyctophilus sherrini)
• Turkestani long-eared bat (Otonycteris leucophaea)
• western long-eared bat (Myotis evotis, Nyctophilus major)

 

Translations

a vesper bat

• French: oreillard (fr)
• Galician: morcego orelludo (gl) m
• Polish: gacek (pl) m, nocolubek (pl) m

References

• long-eared bat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vespertilionidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Vespertilionidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons