The helmeted bats are two species of
vesper bat
Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats. The vespertilionid family is the most diverse and widely distributed of bat familie ...
in the genus ''Cassistrellus''. They are found in
South
South is one of the cardinal directions or Points of the compass, compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west.
Etymology
The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Pro ...
and
Southeast Asia
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.
The two species in this genus are:
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Surat helmeted bat
The Surat helmeted bat (''Cassistrellus dimissus'') is a species of vesper bat. It ranges from Thailand and Laos west to Nepal.
Taxonomy
This species was formerly classified in the genus ''Eptesicus'' until phylogenetic analysis found it to b ...
, ''Cassistrellus dimissus''
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Yok Don helmeted bat
ट or YOK may refer to:
*Yok weaving technique, see Thai-style dresses, Tstyle dresses
*Yok, a Turkish copula, negation of "to be"
*YOK or YÖK, an abbreviation for the Commission for Higher Education, Turkey
*yok, the ISO 639-3 code for the Yoku ...
, ''Cassistrellus yokdonensis''
Of these, ''C. dimissus'' was initially classified in ''
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 cer ...
'' until phylogenetic studies affirmed its distinctiveness, while ''C. yokdonesis'' was described in the same study that described the new genus.
References
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Cassistrellus