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In September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) shared a list of 783 mammal species that are "data deficient." This means scientists don't have enough information about these animals to know if they are safe, threatened, or endangered. About 14% of all mammals that the IUCN has looked at are on this list. The IUCN also listed 30 types of mammal subspecies (smaller groups within a species) as data deficient.

This list shows all the mammal species and subspecies that the IUCN has marked as "data deficient." If a species has specific groups (called "subpopulations" or "stocks") that are data deficient, that's also noted. We'll use common names where possible, but links will take you to the scientific names used by the IUCN.

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Mammals We Don't Know Enough About

When an animal is "data deficient," it means we don't have enough scientific information to figure out how many of them exist, where they live, or if their numbers are going up or down. This makes it hard to protect them because we don't know what they need or if they are in danger.

Why Are Some Mammals Data Deficient?

There are many reasons why scientists might not have enough information about a mammal:

  • Hard to Find: Some animals live in very remote places, like deep forests or high mountains, making them difficult to study.
  • No Recent Studies: For some species, there haven't been many studies done recently, so the information we have is old or incomplete.
  • Look-Alikes: Sometimes, a species might look very similar to another, making it hard to tell them apart without detailed research.
  • New Discoveries: When a new species is discovered, scientists often need time to gather enough data about it.

What Happens to Data Deficient Mammals?

Being "data deficient" doesn't mean an animal is safe, nor does it mean it's in danger. It just means we don't know. The goal is to gather more information so these animals can be moved to a more specific category, like "least concern" (meaning they are safe for now) or "endangered" (meaning they need help).

Primates: Our Closest Relatives

There are 20 species and 26 subspecies of primates that are data deficient. Primates include monkeys, lemurs, and apes.

Gibbons

Gibbons are small, tree-dwelling apes known for their long arms and loud calls.

  • Subspecies:
    • Yunnan lar gibbon

Lemurs

Lemurs are primates found only on the island of Madagascar.

  • Species:
    • Lesser iron-gray dwarf lemur
  • Subspecies:
    • Ranomafana bamboo lemur

Tarsiers

Tarsiers are tiny primates with huge eyes, found in Southeast Asia.

  • Lariang tarsier
  • Pygmy tarsier
  • Wallace's tarsier

Old World Monkeys

These monkeys live in Africa and Asia.

  • Species:
    • Osman Hill's mangabey
  • Subspecies:
    • Black-nosed red-tailed monkey
    • White-nosed moustached monkey
    • Pluto monkey
    • Dodinga Hills guereza
    • Djaffa Mountains guereza
    • Mau forest guereza
    • Southern black crested mangabey
    • Dark-crowned long-tailed macaque
    • Burmese long-talied macaque
    • Simeulue long-tailed macaque
    • Kemujan long-tailed macaque
    • Lasia long-tailed macaque
    • Maratua long-tailed macaque
    • East Sumatran banded langur
    • Hose's grizzled langur
    • Bicolored banded languar
    • Miller's maroon langur
    • Davis' maroon langur
    • Bintan Island pale-thighed langur
    • Buff-bellied langur

New World Monkeys

These monkeys are found in Central and South America.

  • Species:
    • Hernández-Camacho's night monkey
    • Stephen Nash's titi
    • Golden-white tassel-ear marmoset
    • Vanzolini's bald-faced saki
  • Subspecies:
    • Hooded spider monkey
    • Lagothrix cana tschudii
    • Lako's saddleback tamarin
    • Crandall's saddleback tamarin

Cetartiodactyls: Whales, Dolphins, and Hoofed Animals

This group includes amazing animals like dolphins, whales, and even-toed ungulates (animals with hooves, like deer). There are 61 species, one subspecies, and three subpopulations in this group that are data deficient.

Non-Cetacean Even-Toed Ungulates

These are hoofed animals that are not whales or dolphins.

  • Silver dik-dik
  • Red brocket
  • Central American red brocket
  • Fea's muntjac
  • Gongshan muntjac
  • Sumatran muntjac
  • Pu Hoat muntjac
  • Leaf muntjac
  • Roosevelt's muntjac
  • Truong Son muntjac
  • Walter's duiker
  • Java mouse-deer
  • Vietnam mouse-deer
  • Williamson's mouse-deer

Cetaceans: Whales and Dolphins

There are 45 species, one subspecies, and three subpopulations of whales and dolphins that are data deficient.

Oceanic Dolphins

Beaked Whales

Beaked whales are deep-diving whales that are rarely seen.

  • Species:
    • Giant beaked whale
    • Baird's beaked whale (Berardius bairdii)
    • Northern bottlenose whale
    • Tropical bottlenose whale
    • North Atlantic beaked whale
    • Andrews' beaked whale
    • Hubbs' beaked whale
    • Blainville's beaked whale
    • Gervais' beaked whale
    • Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale
    • Gray's beaked whale
    • Hector's beaked whale
    • Strap-toothed whale
    • True's beaked whale
    • Perrin's beaked whale
    • Pygmy beaked whale
    • Stejneger's beaked whale
    • Spade-toothed whale
    • Shepherd's beaked whale
  • Subpopulations:

Other Cetaceans

Marsupials: Pouched Mammals

Marsupials are mammals that often carry their young in a pouch, like kangaroos.

  • Agricola's gracile opossum
  • Guahiba gracile opossum
  • Unduavi gracile opossum
  • Menzies' echymipera
  • Emilia's gracile opossum
  • Heavy-browed mouse opossum
  • Red mouse opossum
  • Tyler's mouse opossum
  • Narrow-headed slender opossum
  • Creighton's slender opossum
  • Dusky slender opossum
  • Arfak pygmy bandicoot
  • Mouse bandicoot
  • Ihering's three-striped opossum
  • Woolley's three-striped dasyure
  • Tate's three-striped dasyure
  • Olrog's four-eyed opossum
  • Chestnut dunnart
  • Sooty dunnart
  • Tate's fat-tailed mouse opossum
  • Buff-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum

Carnivores: Meat Eaters

This group includes animals like mongooses, genets, and weasels.

  • Species:
    • Pousargues's mongoose
    • Abyssinian genet
    • King genet
    • Vietnam ferret-badger
    • Sichuan weasel
    • Tonkin weasel

Afrosoricida: Tenrecs and Golden Moles

This group includes unique animals like tenrecs and golden moles, mostly found in Africa.

  • Somali golden mole
  • Visagie's golden mole
  • Congo golden mole
  • Four-toed rice tenrec

Pilosa: Sloths and Anteaters

Eulipotyphla: Shrews, Moles, and Hedgehogs

There are 83 species in this group that are data deficient.

Shrews

Shrews are small, mouse-like mammals with long snouts.

  • Giant mole shrew
  • Sumatran water shrew
  • Van Sung's shrew
  • Pygmy brown-toothed shrew
  • Salenski's shrew
  • Lesser Taiwanese shrew
  • Greater Congo shrew
  • Armenian shrew
  • Bottego's shrew
  • Caspian shrew
  • Dhofar shrew
  • Doucet's musk shrew
  • Heather shrew
  • Fischer's shrew
  • Flower's shrew
  • Peters's musk shrew
  • Greater Mindanao shrew
  • Hill's shrew
  • Horsfield's shrew
  • Katinka's shrew
  • Savanna swamp shrew
  • Nyiro shrew
  • Mindoro shrew
  • Mossy forest shrew
  • Ugandan musk shrew
  • Pale gray shrew
  • Phu Hoc shrew
  • Pitman's shrew
  • Flat-headed shrew
  • Polia's shrew
  • Kashmir white-toothed shrew
  • Rainey's shrew
  • Chinese white-toothed shrew
  • Egyptian pygmy shrew
  • Ugandan lowland shrew
  • Sokolov's shew
  • Iranian shrew
  • Saharan shrew
  • Timor shrew
  • Ultimate shrew
  • Mamfe shrew
  • Banka shrew
  • Hainan Island shrew
  • Mikhail Zaitsev's shrew
  • Zaphir's shrew
  • Upemba shrew
  • Central Mexican broad-clawed shrew
  • Eastern Cordillera small-footed shrew
  • Honduran small-eared shrew
  • Central American least shrew
  • Oaxacan broad-clawed shrew
  • Peruvian small-eared shrew
  • Tropical small-eared shrew
  • Schaller's mouse shrew
  • Thin mouse shrew
  • Grauer's large-headed shrew
  • Glacier Bay water shrew
  • Valais shrew
  • Udine shrew
  • Gansu shrew
  • Ixtlan shrew
  • Kozlov's shrew
  • Paramushir shrew
  • Ussuri shrew
  • New Mexico shrew
  • Portenko's shrew
  • Chinese shrew
  • Tibetan shrew
  • Black shrew
  • Bornean pygmy shrew
  • Suncus hututsi
  • Surdisorex schlitteri
  • Dudu Akaibe's pygmy shrew
  • Kongana shrew
  • Lesser forest shrew
  • Rain forest shrew
  • Bamenda pygmy shrew

Erinaceids: Hedgehogs and Gymnures

  • Long-eared gymnure

Talpids: Moles

  • Small-toothed mole
  • Vietnamese mole
  • Père David's mole
  • Anderson's shrew mole
  • Inquisitive shrew mole

Lagomorphs: Rabbits and Hares

This group includes rabbits, hares, and pikas.

  • Ethiopian hare
  • Annamite striped rabbit
  • Manzano mountain cottontail
  • Dice's cottontail
  • Venezuelan lowland rabbit

Rodents: Gnawing Mammals

There are 380 rodent species that are data deficient. This is the largest group on the list!

Hystricomorpha: Porcupines and Relatives

There are 82 species in this group that are data deficient.

Tuco-tucos

Tuco-tucos are burrowing rodents from South America.

  • Brazilian tuco-tuco
  • Budin's tuco-tuco
  • Colburn's tuco-tuco
  • Puntilla tuco-tuco
  • Coyhaique tuco-tuco
  • Chacoan tuco-tuco
  • Famatina tuco-tuco
  • Foch's tuco-tuco
  • Lago Blanco tuco-tuco
  • San Juan tuco-tuco
  • Jujuy tuco-tuco
  • Catamarca tuco-tuco
  • Tiny tuco-tuco
  • San Luis tuco-tuco
  • Salta tuco-tuco
  • Scaglia's tuco-tuco
  • Silky tuco-tuco
  • Forest tuco-tuco
  • Robust tuco-tuco
  • Tucuman tuco-tuco
  • Sierra Tontal tuco-tuco
  • Strong tuco-tuco
  • Vipos tuco-tuco
  • Yolanda's tuco-tuco

Chinchilla Rats

  • Budin's chinchilla rat
  • Famatina chinchilla rat
  • Uspallata chinchilla rat
  • Punta de Vacas chinchilla rat
  • Asháninka arboreal chinchilla rat
  • Machu Picchu arboreal chinchilla rat

Dasyproctids: Agoutis and Pacas

  • Azara's agouti
  • Orange agouti
  • Dasyprocta iacki
  • Kalinowski's agouti
  • Dasyprocta variegata

Neotropical Spiny Rats

  • Owl's spiny rat
  • Montane bamboo rat
  • Colombian soft-furred spiny rat
  • Dark spiny tree-rat
  • Echimys vieirai
  • Barbara Brown's brush-tailed rat
  • Orinoco brush-tailed rat (Isothrix orinoci)
  • Dusky spiny tree-rat
  • Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat
  • White-tailed olalla rat
  • Greedy olalla rat
  • Carriker's speckled tree-rat (Pattonomys carrikeri)
  • Yellow speckled tree-rat (Pattonomys flavidus)
  • Bare-tailed armored tree-rat
  • Orinocan speckled tree-rat (Pattonomys punctatus)
  • Kerr's Atlantic tree-rat
  • Pallid Atlantic tree-rat
  • Southern Atlantic tree rat
  • Boyacá spiny rat
  • Gardner's spiny rat
  • Guyanan spiny rat
  • Kulina spiny rat
  • Minca spiny rat
  • O'Connell's spiny rat
  • Trinidad spiny rat
  • Thrichomys laurentius
  • Peruvian toro
  • Dark-caped Atlantic spiny rat
  • Spiked Atlantic spiny rat

New World Porcupines

  • Baturite porcupine
  • Coendou ichillus
  • Black dwarf porcupine
  • Andean porcupine
  • Roosmalen's dwarf porcupine
  • Brown hairy dwarf porcupine

Other Hystricomorpha Species

  • Porter's rock rat
  • Sage's rock rat
  • Sacha Guinea pig
  • Val's gundi
  • Felou gundi
  • Nigerian mole-rat
  • Southern highland yellow-toothed cavy
  • Lesser capybara
  • Acrobatic cavy
  • Ecuadorean viscacha
  • Wolffsohn's viscacha
  • Kirchner's viscacha rat

Myomorpha: Mice, Rats, and Hamsters

There are 245 species in this group that are data deficient.

Murids: Mice, Rats, Gerbils

This family includes many common rodents like mice, rats, and gerbils.

  • Luzon broad-toothed rat
  • Asia Minor spiny mouse
  • Crete spiny mouse
  • Cyprus spiny mouse
  • Selinda veld rat
  • Tinfields rock rat
  • Ammodile
  • Mindoro climbing rat
  • Luzon Cordillera forest mouse
  • Large Mindoro forest mouse
  • Mindanao lowland forest mouse
  • Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse
  • Mountain water rat
  • Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat
  • Kenneth's white-toothed rat
  • Manipur white-toothed rat
  • Short-footed Luzon tree rat
  • Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse
  • Large pencil-tailed tree mouse
  • Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse
  • Small pencil-tailed tree mouse
  • Sibuyan striped shrew rat
  • White-toothed brush mouse
  • Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat
  • Ilin Island cloudrunner
  • Celebes shrew rat
  • Northern Luzon shrew rat
  • Katanglad shrew mouse
  • Millard's rat
  • Fox's shaggy rat
  • Angolan marsh rat
  • Crump's mouse
  • Berbera gerbil
  • Agag gerbil
  • Botta's gerbil
  • Brockman's gerbil
  • Burton's gerbil
  • Cosens's gerbil (Gerbillus cosensis)
  • Grobben's gerbil
  • James's gerbil
  • Lowe's gerbil
  • Darfur gerbil
  • Sudan gerbil
  • Occidental gerbil
  • Percival's gerbil (Gerbillus percivali)
  • Principal gerbil
  • Somalian gerbil
  • Khartoum gerbil
  • Sulawesi root rat
  • Arid thicket rat
  • Bunting's thicket rat
  • Gray-headed thicket rat
  • Yunnan bush rat
  • Ranee mouse
  • Western water rat
  • New Britain water rat
  • Ziegler's water rat
  • Western white-eared giant rat
  • Togo mouse
  • Hoogstraal's striped grass mouse
  • Rosevear's striped grass mouse
  • Diwangkara's long-tailed giant rat
  • Gray brush-furred rat
  • Lesser small-toothed rat
  • Little margareta rat
  • Dwarf mastomys
  • Small Bornean maxomys
  • Dollman's spiny rat
  • Sumatran spiny rat
  • Chestnut-bellied spiny rat
  • Sulawesian shrew rat
  • Rossel Island melomys
  • Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat
  • Yamdena mosaic-tailed rat
  • Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
  • Riama mosaic-tailed rat
  • Pavel's Seram mosaic-tailed rat
  • Zarudny's jird
  • Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse
  • Sumatran shrewlike mouse
  • Gounda mouse
  • Neave's mouse
  • Oubangui mouse
  • Ethiopian mylomys
  • Limestone rat
  • Palawan soft-furred mountain rat
  • Short-haired water rat
  • Stein's paramelomys
  • Paucidentomys vermidax
  • Hopkins's groove-toothed swamp rat
  • Issel's groove-toothed swamp rat
  • Malayan tree rat
  • Bornean pithecheirops
  • Champion's tree-mouse
  • Least soft-furred mouse
  • Muton's soft-furred mouse
  • Verschuren's swamp rat
  • Thin sand rat
  • Pseudoberylmys muongbangensis
  • German's one-toothed moss mouse
  • Musser's shrew mouse
  • Western shrew mouse
  • White-bellied moss mouse
  • Pilliga mouse
  • Sunburned rat
  • Vogelkop mountain rat
  • Aceh rat
  • Bonthain rat
  • Enggano rat
  • Giluwe rat
  • Koopman's rat
  • Korinch's rat
  • Mindoro black rat
  • Arianus's rat
  • Peleng rat
  • Southeastern xanthurus rat
  • Tawitawi forest rat
  • Timor rat
  • Banahao shrew rat
  • Rhynchomys tapulao
  • Paulina's limestone rat
  • Florida naked-tailed rat
  • Sommer's Sulawesi rat
  • Rupp's mouse
  • Salokko rat
  • Lovely-haired rat
  • Sulawesi montane rat
  • Small-eared rat
  • Sulawesi forest rat
  • Tondano rat
  • Long-tailed shrew rat
  • Tate's shrew rat
  • Shortridge's rat
  • Schouteden's thicket rat (Thamnomys schoutedeni)
  • Daovantien's limestone rat
  • Luzon short-nosed rat
  • Great Key Island giant rat

Cricetids: Hamsters, Voles, New World Mice

This group includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, and many New World rats and mice.

  • Diminutive akodont
  • Catamarca akodont
  • Lindbergh's grass mouse
  • Caparaó grass mouse
  • Neuquén grass mouse
  • Monte akodont
  • Tarija akodont
  • Philip Myers' akodont
  • São Paulo grass mouse
  • Variable grass mouse
  • White-tailed mountain vole
  • Lake Baikal mountain vole
  • Ucayali water rat
  • White-nosed akodont
  • Gray-bellied akodont
  • Guaraní akodont
  • Red-bellied akodont
  • Misiones akodont
  • Arroyo of Paradise brucie
  • Soricine brucie
  • Anderson's rice rat
  • Marinho's rice rat
  • Magellanic long-clawed akodont
  • Las Cajas water mouse
  • Chibchan water mouse
  • Unalaska collared lemming
  • Wrangel lemming
  • Alai mole vole
  • Gray rice rat
  • Patagonian chinchilla mouse
  • Burrowing chinchilla mouse
  • Emmons's rice rat
  • Garlepp's mouse
  • Central leaf-eared mouse
  • Edith's leaf-eared mouse
  • Hylaeamys acritus
  • Hylaeamys tatei
  • Stolzmann's crab-eating rat
  • Tweedy's crab-eating rat
  • Rio Guaporé mouse
  • Huanchaca mouse
  • Wrangel Island lemming
  • Anatolian vole
  • Evorsk vole
  • Felten's vole
  • Persian vole
  • Muisk vole
  • Nasarov's vole (Microtus nasarovi)
  • Qazvin vole
  • Painted bristly mouse
  • Spotted bolo mouse
  • Nectomys magdalenae
  • Forrest's mountain vole
  • Linzhi mountain vole
  • Ferreira's fish-eating rat
  • Oyapock's fish-eating rat
  • Cleber's arboreal rice rat
  • Brazilian arboreal rice rat
  • Brenda's colilargo
  • Oligoryzomys moojeni
  • Oligoryzomys rupestris
  • Peruvian rice rat
  • Curaçao rice rat
  • Argentine hocicudo
  • Blackish deer mouse
  • Peromyscus sagax
  • Anita's leaf-eared mouse
  • Osgood's leaf-eared mouse
  • Liangshan vole
  • Sonoran harvest mouse
  • Nicaraguan harvest mouse
  • Cariri climbing mouse
  • Cauca climbing mouse
  • Yellow-bellied climbing mouse
  • Delicate salt flat mouse
  • Harris's rice water rat
  • Silky Oldfield mouse
  • Hudson's Oldfield mouse
  • Popayán Oldfield mouse
  • Cajamarca Oldfield mouse
  • Rosalinda's Oldfield mouse
  • Pichincha Oldfield mouse
  • Fulvous-bellied climbing rat
  • Panamanian climbing rat
  • Marie's vole
  • Cerrado red-nosed mouse

Nesomyids: African and Malagasy Rodents

  • Lachaise's climbing mouse
  • Dendromus ruppi
  • Vernay's climbing mouse
  • Velvet climbing mouse
  • Tsingy tufted-tailed rat
  • Daniel's tufted-tailed rat
  • Ellerman's tufted-tailed rat
  • Petter's big-footed mouse
  • Nikolaus's mouse
  • Dollman's tree mouse
  • Jackson's fat mouse

Spalacids: Blind Mole-Rats

  • Middle East blind mole-rat
  • Lesser mole-rat
  • Nehring's blind mole-rat

Dipodids: Jerboas and Birch Mice

  • Iranian jerboa
  • Five-toed pygmy jerboa
  • Thaler's jerboa
  • Baluchistan pygmy jerboa
  • Heptner's pygmy jerboa
  • Pale pygmy jerboa
  • Long-tailed birch mouse
  • Gray birch mouse

Mouse-like Hamsters

  • Noble mouse-like hamster
  • Tsolov's mouse-like hamster

Castorimorpha: Beavers and Pocket Gophers

  • Lined pocket mouse
  • Oaxacan pocket gopher

Sciuromorpha: Squirrels and Dormice

There are 50 species in this group that are data deficient.

Sciurids: Squirrels, Chipmunks, Marmots

This family includes squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, and prairie dogs.

  • Black flying squirrel
  • Thomas's flying squirrel
  • Hairy-footed flying squirrel
  • Kloss's squirrel
  • Least pygmy squirrel
  • Lunda rope squirrel
  • Du Chaillu's rope squirrel
  • Kintampo rope squirrel
  • Sculptor squirrel
  • Small sun squirrel
  • Zanj sun squirrel
  • Bartel's flying squirrel
  • Gray-cheeked flying squirrel
  • Jentink's flying squirrel
  • Sumatran flying squirrel
  • Niobe ground squirrel
  • Amazon dwarf squirrel
  • Santander dwarf squirrel
  • Cooper's mountain squirrel
  • Black and red bush squirrel
  • Lesser pygmy flying squirrel
  • Hose's pygmy flying squirrel
  • Selangor pygmy flying squirrel
  • Hagen's flying squirrel
  • Arrow flying squirrel
  • Secretive dwarf squirrel
  • Whitish dwarf squirrel
  • Celebes dwarf squirrel
  • Weber's dwarf squirrel
  • Slender-tailed squirrel
  • Neotropical pygmy squirrel
  • Arizona gray squirrel
  • Fiery squirrel
  • Yellow-throated squirrel
  • Bolivian squirrel
  • Andean squirrel
  • Junín red squirrel
  • Sanborn's squirrel
  • Davao squirrel
  • Palawan montane squirrel

Dormice

Dormice are small, mouse-like rodents known for their long periods of hibernation.

Anomaluromorpha: Scaly-tailed Squirrels

  • Pel's flying squirrel

Cingulata: Armadillos

  • Northern naked-tailed armadillo
  • Greater fairy armadillo
  • Pink fairy armadillo
  • Hairy long-nosed armadillo
  • Yepes's mulita

Chiroptera: Bats

There are 191 species and one subspecies of bats that are data deficient.

Megabats: Fruit Bats and Flying Foxes

Megabats are generally larger bats that eat fruit or nectar.

  • Ansell's epauletted fruit bat
  • Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat
  • Hayman's dwarf epauletted fruit bat
  • Round-eared tube-nosed fruit bat
  • Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat
  • Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat
  • Nendo tube-nosed fruit bat
  • Andersen's flying fox
  • Kei flying fox
  • Lombok flying fox
  • Okinawa flying fox
  • Philippine gray flying fox
  • Linduan rousette
  • Mindoro stripe-faced fruit bat

Microbats: Smaller Bats

There are 171 species and one subspecies of microbats that are data deficient. These bats often use echolocation to find insects.

Old World Leaf-Nosed Bats

  • Species:
    • Boeadi's roundleaf bat
    • Short-headed roundleaf bat
    • Greater roundleaf bat
    • Large Mindanao roundleaf bat
    • Timor roundleaf bat
    • Crested roundleaf bat
    • Big-eared roundleaf bat
    • Malayan roundleaf bat
  • Subspecies:
    • Philippine tailless leaf-nosed bat

Horseshoe Bats

Horseshoe bats have unique nose-leaf structures that help them with echolocation.

  • Adam's horseshoe bat
  • Convex horseshoe bat
  • Insular horseshoe bat
  • Maendeleo horseshoe bat
  • Mitred horseshoe bat
  • Neriad horseshoe bat
  • Osgood's horseshoe bat
  • Sakeji horseshoe bat
  • Forest horseshoe bat
  • Small rufous horseshoe bat

Vesper Bats

Vesper bats are one of the largest and most widespread families of bats.

  • Surat serotine
  • Kobayashi's bat
  • Lagos serotine
  • Sombre bat
  • Pungent pipistrelle
  • Peters's pipistrelle
  • Curry's bat
  • Bibundi bat
  • Glen's wattled bat
  • Allen's spotted bat
  • Kenyan wattled bat
  • Machado's butterfly bat
  • Javan thick-thumbed bat
  • Peter's tube-nosed bat
  • Harpiola isodon
  • False serotine bat
  • Gaskell's false serotine
  • Strange big-eared brown bat
  • Humboldt big-eared brown bat
  • Tropical big-eared brown bat
  • Anthony's pipistrelle
  • Joffre's pipistrelle
  • Red-brown pipistrelle
  • Burma pipistrelle
  • Big-eared pipistrelle
  • Vordermann's pipistrelle
  • St. Aignan's trumpet-eared bat
  • Copper woolly bat
  • Ethiopian woolly bat
  • Angolan long-eared bat
  • Tacarcuna bat
  • Hairy-tailed bat
  • Big red bat
  • Dusky tube-nosed bat
  • Southern myotis
  • Alcathoe whiskered bat
  • Anjouan myotis
  • Annamit myotis
  • Australian myotis
  • Bocharic myotis
  • Guatemalan myotis
  • Csorba's mouse-eared bat
  • Kock's mouse-eared bat
  • Herman's myotis
  • Insular myotis
  • Kashmir cave bat
  • Morris's bat
  • Singapore whiskered bat
  • Felten's myotis
  • Orange-fingered myotis
  • Schaub's myotis
  • Velvety myotis
  • Kei myotis
  • Yellow serotine
  • Heller's pipistrelle
  • Melck's house bat
  • Temminck's mysterious bat
  • Sunda long-eared bat
  • Dubious trumpet-eared bat
  • Mount Gargues pipistrelle
  • Arabian pipistrelle
  • Desert pipistrelle
  • Eisentraut's pipistrelle
  • Aellen's pipistrelle
  • Minahassa pipistrelle
  • Mouselike pipistrelle
  • Dar es Salaam pipistrelle
  • Racey's pipistrelle bat
  • Ethiopian big-eared bat
  • Christie's big-eared bat
  • Husson's yellow bat
  • Light-winged lesser house bat
  • Lesser yellow bat
  • Sulawesi yellow bat
  • Robbins's yellow bat
  • Malagasy yellow bat

Long-Fingered Bats

  • Miniopterus griveaudi
  • Least long-fingered bat
  • Miniopterus newtoni
  • Philippine long-fingered bat
  • Peterson's long-fingered bat
  • Shortridge's long-fingered bat

Sac-Winged Bats

  • Greater ghost bat
  • Trinidad dog-like bat
  • Amazonian sac-winged bat
  • Indonesian tomb bat
  • Hamilton's tomb bat

Free-Tailed Bats

  • Gallagher's free-tailed bat
  • Russet free-tailed bat
  • Cinnamon dog-faced bat
  • Para dog-faced bat
  • Guianan bonneted bat
  • Rufous dog-faced bat
  • Barnes' mastiff bat
  • Niangara free-tailed bat
  • Sulawesi free-tailed bat
  • Trevor's free-tailed bat
  • Sumatran mastiff bat
  • Daubenton's free-tailed bat
  • Javan mastiff bat
  • Johnstone's mastiff bat
  • Big-eared mastiff bat
  • Mantled mastiff bat
  • Wroughton's free-tailed bat
  • East Asian free-tailed bat (Tadarida insignis)
  • African giant free-tailed bat

Leaf-Nosed Bats

  • Tube-lipped nectar bat
  • Honduran fruit-eating bat
  • Rosenberg's fruit-eating bat
  • Behn's bat
  • Chocoan long-tongued bat
  • Lonchophylla orcesi
  • Northern sword-nosed bat
  • Brosset's big-eared bat
  • Matses' big-eared bat
  • Sanborn's big-eared bat
  • Koepcke's hairy-nosed bat
  • Least big-eared bat
  • Shadowy broad-nosed bat
  • Mistratoan yellow-shouldered bat
  • Soriano's yellow-shouldered bat
  • Greater round-eared bat
  • Southern little yellow-eared bat
  • Vieira's long-tongued bat

Slit-Faced Bats

  • Malagasy slit-faced bat
  • Ja slit-faced bat
  • Parissi's slit-faced bat
  • Vinson's slit-faced bat

Mouse-Tailed Bats

  • Macinnes's mouse-tailed bat

Disc-Winged Bats

  • Thyroptera devivoi
  • LaVal's disk-winged bat

Elephant Shrews

Elephant shrews, also called sengis, are small, fast-moving mammals with long, flexible snouts.

  • Dusky-footed elephant shrew
  • Dusky elephant shrew
  • Karoo rock elephant shrew
  • Somali sengi

Treeshrews

Treeshrews are small mammals from Southeast Asia that look a bit like squirrels.

  • Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew
  • Striped treeshrew
  • Calamian treeshrew

See also

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