Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Cladus: Synapsida
Cladus: Eupelycosauria
Cladus: Sphenacodontia
Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea
OrdoTherapsida
Cladus: Theriodontia
Subordo: Cynodontia
Cladus: Mammaliaformes
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Trechnotheria
Infraclassis: Zatheria
Supercohort: Theria
Cohort: Eutheria
Cohort: Placentalia
Cladus: Boreoeutheria
Superordo: Laurasiatheria
Ordo: Chiroptera
Subordo: Microchiroptera
Superfamilia: Emballonuroidea
Familia: Emballonuridae
Subfamilia: Emballonurinae
Genus: Diclidurus
Subgenera:
D. (Depanycteris) - D. (Diclidurus)Name
Diclidurus Wied-Neuwied, 1819
Type Species: Diclidurus albus Wied-Neuwied, 1820
References
Wied-Neuwied. 1819. Isis von Oken, 1819: 1629.
Vernacular names
English: Ghost bats.
Diclidurus is a genus of bats whose common name is the ghost bats (not to be confused with the Australia Macroderma gigas). Diclidurus all inhabit tropical South America, and D. albus is also found in Mexico and Central America.[1][2] The fur of these insectivorous bats is white, sometimes with a slight greyish tinge, except D. isabella, which is partially pale brown.[1] The only other all-white bat in the New World is the Honduran white bat, but it is easily distinguished from Diclidurus by its relatively large nose leaf.[1] Diclidurus are poorly known and only infrequently captured, at least in part because they fly high above the ground or in the forest canopy (above the typical height of mist nets used by bat researchers).[3]
Species
Northern ghost bat—D. albus
Greater ghost bat—D. ingens
Isabelle's ghost bat—D. isabella
Lesser ghost bat—D. scutatus
References
Emmons, L.H (1997). Neotropical Rainforest Mammals. 2nd edition. ISBN 0-226-20719-6
Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Diclidurus", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 312–529, ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0, retrieved 28 September 2009
Ferreira, A.P.; D.C. Melo; and A. Loures-Ribeiro (2013). Diclidurus albus Wied-Neuwied, 1820 (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae): First record of the species in the state of Paraíba, Brazil. Check List 9(4): 793–796.
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