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Lesser Sac-winged Bat or Lesser White-lined Bat

Saccopteryx cf. leptura

Photo by pamsai
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Field Notes

Description:

Saw these tiny bats on the side of one of the buildings in Mawamba Lodge, Tortuguero.

Species ID Suggestions

Lesser Sac-winged Bat or Lesser White-lined Bat

Saccopteryx cf. leptura

Reference Link
bayucca
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Comments (7)
pamsai
Woops Lisa, bayucca has edited the species, so you have to either unlearn what you learnt, or visit the real probiscus bat here!! Sorry... http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/41009004 http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/40248030
bayucca
Sac-winged bat, either Saccopteryx leptura (what I think it is: smaller, more brown, less marked stripes than the other) or Saccopteryx bilineata (more blackish than brownish, larger than Leptura). Many wrongly or untrustedly IDed lined bats on the web, unfortunately...
pamsai
that's what I thought also Cano... Great!
pamsai
I am wondering if there is something under the little bat in photo number 2. Any ideas?
pamsai
you are most welcome, Lisa...
LisaPowers
Very neat to see and learn about this species! Thanks!

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PublishedNovember 18, 2013

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