Genus
Tadarida
Tadarida brasiliensis. Photo: (c) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters, some rights reserved (CC BY)
The genus Tadarida has 9 or more species of free-tailed bats divided into two subgenera, with the first of these containing seven species spread across the Old World (including southern Europe and North Africa, large parts of southern Asia, and India right across to Japan). Four species occur exclusively in Africa including Madagascar while two more species occur in central Papua New Guinea, and western and southern Australia, respectively.
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