Striped leaf-nosed bat | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Hipposideridae |
Genus: | Macronycteris |
Species: | M. vittata
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Binomial name | |
Macronycteris vittata (Peters, 1852)[1]
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Striped leaf-nosed bat range | |
Synonyms | |
Hipposideros marungensis Noack, 1887 |
The striped leaf-nosed bat (Macronycteris vittata)[2] is a species of bat native to eastern and southern Africa.[3] It was formerly considered part of M. commersoni, which is now viewed as being restricted to Madagascar.[1][3] Both commersoni and it were formerly placed in the genus Hipposideros, but moved to the resurrected Macronycteris in 2017 on the basis of molecular evidence.[2]