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House Bats
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House Bats

Eptesicus

Eptesicus is a genus of bats, commonly called house bats or serotine bats, in the family Vespertilionidae. The genus name is likely derived from the Greek words ptetikos 'able to fly' or petomai 'house flier', although this is not certain.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Big Brown Bat

speciesEptesicus fuscus

Caribbean Brown Bat

speciesEptesicus dutertreus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 40477.