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Thumbless bat
| Thumbless Bat | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Furipteridae |
| Genus: | Furipterus Bonaparte, 1837 |
| Species: | F. horrens
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| Furipterus horrens | |
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The thumbless bat (Furipterus horrens) is a species of insectivorous bat in the family Furipteridae, in the monotypic genus Furipterus. They have a small thumb which is included in the membrane of the wing, causing the 'thumbless' appearance.[3]
- ^ Miller, B.; Reid, F.; Arroyo-Cabrales, J.; Cuarón, A.D.; de Grammont, P.C. (2016). "Furipterus horrens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T8771A21971535. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T8771A21971535.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Cuvier, F. (1828). "description d'un nouveau genre de chauve-souris sous le nom de Furie". Mémoires du Muséum d'histoire naturelle. 16. G. Dufour: 150.
- ^ Nowak, Ronald (1991). Walker's Mammals of the World (Fifth ed.). The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-3970-2.
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