The large-eared slit-faced bat (''Nycteris macrotis''), is a species of

slit-faced bat ''Nycteris'' comprises a genus of bats commonly called slit-faced or hollow-faced bats. They are grouped in the family Nycteridae. The bats are found in East Malaysia, Indonesia, and many parts of Africa. Description They are small bats, from i ...

which lives in forests and

savanna A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to ...

s throughout Africa. '' Nycteris vinsoni'' was once considered a synonym of ''N. macrotis'', but it became recognized as a separate species in 2004. Some, however, still consider ''N. vinsoni'' to be a subspecies of ''N. macrotis'', and consider ''N. macrotis'' a

species complex In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear. The taxa in the complex may be able to hybridize readily with each oth ...

. Three subspecies have been identified: ''N. m. aethiopica'', ''N. m. luteola'', and ''N. m. macrotis''.

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Bats of Africa Nycteridae Mammals described in 1876 Taxa named by George Edward Dobson {{bat-stub