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CHIROPTERA-2

VESPERTILIONIDAE Japanese Pipistrelle

Body length 4.1-6.0cm. Tail length 2.9-4.5cm. It is the bat which lives such as a ceiling or dormer. When the evening comes, it fly about, and eat an insect.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Endo's Pipistrelle

Forearm length 3.2-3.4cm. Body length 4.3-5.3cm. Tail length 3.4-4.0cm. This bat lives in not the town but the wood though it looks like a Pipistrelle.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Savi's Pipistrelle

Forearm length 3.4-3.8cm. Body length 4.2-5.9cm. Tail length 3.0-4.3cm. Several have only ever had this bat captured in Japan in Hokkaido, Aomori and Tsushima.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Bonin pipistrelle

Forearm length 3.0cm. Body length 3.7cm. Tail length 3.1cm. The bat that only only one had ever been captured in Ogasawara Island the first century ago.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Northern Bat

Body length 5.5-6.5cm. Tail length 3.5-4.3cm. This bat lives in Hokkaido.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Japanese Serotines

Forearm length 3.8-4.3cm. Body length 5.5-6.5cm. Tail length 3.5-4.3cm. A Japanese endemic species.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Japanese Noctule Bat

Body length 8.9-11cm. Tail length 5.1-6.7cm. The bat which lives in the wood.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Noctule Bat

Body length 7.6-8.4cm. Tail length 4.6-5.4cm. The bat which lives in the wood.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Asian Particolored Bat

Body length 6.8-8cm. Tail length 3.5-5cm. The bats breed by 100 and more group in gave or deserted cottage.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Particolored Bat

Body length 5.3-6.4cm. Tail length 3.8-4.6cm. This bat was recorded in Japan for the first time in 2002. Only one was caught in Rebun Island in Hokkaido.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Eastern Barbastelle

Body length 3.9-4.4cm. Tail length 4.3-5.4cm。 This bat is characterized by its long ear, and that the root of the ear sticks.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Long-eared Bat

Body length 4.2-5.8cm. Tail length 4.2-5.5cm. The bat whose ear is long like a rabbit. It is being called a "rabbit bat" in Japanese.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Eastern Bent-winged Bat

Body length 5.9-6.9cm. Tail length 5.1-5.7cm. This bat has a slender wing.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Ryukyu Bent-winged Bat

Forearm length 4.3-4.7cm. Body length 5.0-6.0Tail length 4.5-5.5cm. This bat lives in the Japanese southwestern Ryukyu Islands.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Tube-nosed Bat

Body length 5.9-7.3cm. Tail length 3.6-4.7cm. This bat has the nose stuck out to the tube-shaped.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Ryukyu Tube-nosed Bat

Forearm length 3.4-3.8cm. Body length 4.7-5.2cm. Tail length 3.7-4.5cm. This is the new species of Tube-nosed Bat discovered in Okinawa Island in 1996.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Japanese Lesser Tube-nosed Bat

Forearm length 2.9-3.3cm. Body length 4.1-5.4cm. Tail length 2.6-3.3cm. This bat is a miniature kind more than Tube-nosed Bat to live in Hokkaido and Honshu.

VESPERTILIONIDAE Gloomy Tube-nosed Bat

Forearm length 3.4cm. Body length 5.1cm. Tail length 3.5cm. Only this one bat was collected in Tsushima Island in 1962.

MOLOSSIDAE European Free-tailed Bat

Body length 8.4-9.4cm. Tail length 4.8-5.6cm. This bat has the tail sticking out of flying membrane.

MOLOSSIDAE "Sumi-iro" Free-tailed Bat

Forearm length 5.4-5.7cm. Body length 6.3-8.2cm. Only these each two body of bats are being recorded in China and Japan.

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