5 September 2011

Help wanted with Bat ID

Hi

Sorry about the poor photo, but does anyone know what species this is? It was photographed flying out from under a bridge, in the Brazilian Pantanal.


Cheers

Steve

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5 Comments

  • 6 September 2011
    vladimir dinets

    What size was it? If it was fairily large, it was a fishing bat. If it was small, probably Saccolaimus.

  • 6 September 2011
    Steve Babbs

    Small – medium. It wasn’t a fishing bat, I’d just come from seeing hundreds of them. Since I posted this someone who is pretty experienced in Brazilian mammals has said it’s a Long-nosed bat Rhynchonycteris naso.

  • 10 September 2011
    Jon Hall

    White-lined bats Saccopteryx sp. are pretty common out there and they often roost on tree stumps etc out in the open. Not sure if those white lines on the bat are real or some sort of blurring (and they also look a little bright to be the white lines of a white lined bat) but its a possibility

  • 10 September 2011
    Steve Babbs

    The white-lines are real. I also thought they looked pretty bright compared to the illustrations in the field guide.

  • 5 August 2017
    Manuel Ruedi

    this is rhynchonycteris naso, a common bat roosting under logs overhanging rivers, and often diurnal (when disturbed)

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