Eger's long-fingered bat (''Miniopterus egeri'') is a species of long-fingered bat found in

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

Taxonomy

Eger's long-fingered bat was described as a new species in 2011 by Goodman et al. The

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for the

species name In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bo ...

"''egeri''" is Judith Eger, Senior Curator of Royal Ontario Museum's Department of Mammalogy.

Description

Eger's long-fingered bat is a relatively small member of its genus with a forearm length of . Individuals weigh . It has a

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of for a total of 36 teeth.

Range and status

Eger's long-fingered bat is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...

. It has been documented at a range of elevations, from above sea level. As of 2017, it is evaluated as a

least-concern species A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. T ...

by the IUCN.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q13455126 Bats of Africa Mammals of Madagascar Endemic fauna of Madagascar Mammals described in 2011