Lab 4 Flashcards
What is the Order, Family, Scientific Name, Common name, Faunal Region, and Characteristics?
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Scientific Name: N/a
Common: Old world fruit bats
Characteristics
membrane stretching between the legs, encompassing parts or sometimes all of the tail (interfemoral membrane)
Uropatagium
What is the Order, Family, Scientific Name, Common name, Faunal Region, and Characteristics?
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Scientific name: Myotis lucifugus
Common Name: Little Brown Myotis
Characteristics:
No keel on calcar
Long hairs on toes
Wings darker than body
38-39 mm forearm
What is the Order, Family, Scientific Name, Common name, Faunal Region, and Characteristics?
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Scientific Name: Myotis sodalis
Common Name: Indiana myotis
Characteristics: Keeled Calcar
Short toe hairs
Wings don’t contrast body
Pink Nose
38-39mm forearm
What is the Order, Family, Scientific Name, Common name, Faunal Region, and Characteristics?
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Scientific Name: Myotis grisescens
Common Name: Gray myotis
Characteristics:
Solid dull fur
Uropatagium attaches to ankle instead of foot
Larger than other myotids
43 mm forearm
What is the Order, Family, Scientific Name, Common name, Faunal Region, and Characteristics?
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Scientific Name: Myotis septentrionalis
Common Name: Northern Long-eared myotis
Characteristics:
Very long and slender tragus
Longer ears
Darker fur below, light brown on top
Keeled calcar
35 mm forearm
What is the Order, Family, Scientific Name, Common name, Faunal Region, and Characteristics?
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Scientific Name: Lasionycteris noctivagans
Common Name: Sliver-haired bat
Characteristics:
Very dark fur with white tips
Migratory
Roost inside of trees
What is the Order, Family, Scientific Name, Common name, Faunal Region, and Characteristics?
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Scientific Name: Perimyotis subflavus
Common Name: Tricolored Bat
Characteristics:
Tricolored fur – dark brown to tan to orange
Pink / orange forearm
Small in size
What is the Order, Family, Scientific Name, Common name, Faunal Region, and Characteristics?
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Scientific Name: Eptesicus fuscus
Common Name: Big brown bat
Characteristics:
Two toned fur – black base brown tips
Larger in size compared to other bats in Indiana
Small tragus
What is the Order, Family, Scientific Name, Common name, Faunal Region, and Characteristics?
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Scientific Name: Lasiurus cinereus
Common Name: Hoary bat
Faunal Region:
Characteristics:
1) Marble fur – orange yellow and brown highlights
2) Uropatagium completely furred
3) Short round ears
4) Migratory – roosts in trees
What is the Order, Family, Scientific Name, Common name, Faunal Region, and Characteristics?
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Scientific Name: Lasiurus borealis
Common Name: Red bat
Characteristics: fur on membrane
What is the Order, Family, Scientific Name, Common name, Faunal Region, and Characteristics?
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Scientific Name: Nycticeius humeralis
Common Name: Evening bat
Characteristics: “
Mask like” black bald area around eyes
Black arms, ears, and wings
What is the Order, Family, Scientific Name, Common name, Faunal Region, and Characteristics?
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Scientific Name: Corynorhinus rafinesquii
Common Name: Rafinesque’s Big-eared Bat
Characteristics:
Extremely large ears
Long pointy tragus
State endangered
What is the Order, Family, Scientific Name, Common name, Faunal Region, and Characteristics?
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Molossidae
Scientific Name: Tadarida brasiliensis
Common Name:Brazilian free-tailed bat
Characteristics:
Long free tail that extends beyond the uropatagium
Short fur brown to dark gray
Tail extends beyond uropatagium
What is the Order, Family, Scientific Name, Common name, Faunal Region, and Characteristics?
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Phyllostomidae
Common Name: New world leaf-nosed bat
Characteristics:
48 Genera – 148 Species
5 species in the US
Nose leaf
What is the Order, Family, Scientific Name, Common name, Faunal Region, and Characteristics?
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Mormoopidae
Scientific Name: n/a
Common Name: Ghost-faced bat and Mustached bats
Characteristics:
2 Genera – 8 species
One species in US
Mormoops megalophylla – Leaf-chinned bat or Peter’s Ghost-faced bat
Arizona and Texas south to South America.
What is the Order, Family, Scientific Name, Common name, Faunal Region, and Characteristics?
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Pteropodidae
Scientific Name: N/a
Common: Old world fruit bats
Characteristics
cartilaginous spike-shaped structure; supports uropatagium
Calcar
cartilaginous structure located within the ear; not in all species
Tragus
What are the regions
- Nearctic
- Ethiopian
3.Palearctic - Neotropical
- Australian
6.Oriental - Madagascan
- Mediterranean
9.West Indian - Argentine
