Family
Vespertilionidae (Evening bats)
Lasiurus cinereus. Photo: (c) David Bell, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Vesper bats (family Vespertilionidae), also known as evening bats or common bats, are the largest and best-known family of bats. They belong to the suborder Microchiroptera (microbats). Over 300 species are distributed all over the world, on every continent except Antarctica. It owes its name to the Latin word vespertilio (“bat”), from vesper, meaning “evening”.
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