Schlieffen's Bat

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Schlieffen's Bat
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Nycticeinops
Species: N. schlieffeni
Binomial name
Nycticeinops schlieffeni
(Peters, 1859)
Synonyms

Nycticeius schlieffeni (Peters, 1859)

The Schlieffen's Bat or Schlieffen's Twilight Bat (Nycticeinops schlieffeni) is a species of vesper bat in the Vespertilionidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and hot deserts.

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