Oriental particolored bat

Japanese: ヒナコウモリ(雛蝙蝠) - ヒナコウモリ（英語表記）Oriental particolored bat

A general term for mammals in the family Vespertilionidae (chiroptera), or one of the species. The family Vespertilionidae consists of 44 genera and 353 species, accounting for one-third of the total number of species in the order Chiroptera. They are distributed widely from the subarctic to temperate and tropical regions of the world, excluding the Antarctic and Arctic, and their habitats are extremely diverse. The oldest fossils are known from the Eocene of Europe. They have no claws on the second toe, no nose lobes, and well-developed tragus and interfemoral membranes. Those found in Japan are classified into three subfamilies: the subfamily Nasophytinae, which consists of the genus Nasophytidae, which have tubular noses; the subfamily Pterotinae, which includes the genus Neophytidae, which have long-fingered bats with long third digits; and the subfamily Vespertinata, which includes the genera Polytminae, Leptotminae, Myotis, Oriental bat, Pipistrellus, Vespertinata, and Porphyrobat.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

翼手目ヒナコウモリ科Vespertilionidaeの哺乳類の総称，もしくはそのうちの1種。ヒナコウモリ科は44属353種からなり，翼手目の種数の1/3を占める。南極および北極を除く世界の亜寒帯から温帯および熱帯に広く分布し，生息場所もきわめて変化に富む。最古の化石はヨーロッパの始新世から知られる。第2指につめがなく，鼻葉を欠き，耳珠（じしゆ）や腿間膜（たいかんまく）がよく発達する。日本産のものは鼻が管状のテングコウモリ属からなるテングコウモリ亜科，第3指が長いユビナガコウモリ属を含むユビナガコウモリ亜科，チチブコウモリ属，ウサギコウモリ属，ホオヒゲコウモリ属，ヤマコウモリ属，アブラコウモリ属，ヒナコウモリ属，ホリカワコウモリ属を含むヒナコウモリ亜科の3亜科に分類される。

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