Species Scotophilus dinganii (A. Smith, 1833) (Yellow-bellied house bat)

Biological classification:
  • kingdom: Animalia
  • - phylum: Chordata
  • -- class: Mammalia
  • --- order: Chiroptera
  • ---- family: Vespertilionidae
  • ----- species: Scotophilus dinganii
Characteristics:insectivore; length: 13 cm, wingspan: 30 cm; olive-brown to russet-brown dorsal fur, underparts yellow or orange coloured
Countries:

BW
Botswana
MZ
Mozambique
NA
Namibia
ZA
South Africa
ZW
Zimbabwe
Ecoregions:

AT0116
KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic
AT0119
Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
AT0128
Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
AT0702
Angolan Mopane woodlands
AT0709
Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
AT0717
Southern Africa bushveld
AT0719
Southern Miombo woodlands
AT0725
Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
AT0726
Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
AT1003
Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands
AT1004
Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
AT1006
Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic
AT1012
Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
AT1309
Kalahari xeric savanna
AT1310
Kaokoveld desert
AT1316
Namibian savanna woodlands
Links:
References:Stuart and Stuart 2007: 72
Source: http://media.eol.org/data_objects/24798898
Date: 2013-02-22
Creator: inaturalist
Permission: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License
Comments: captured with mist nets
Source: http://media.eol.org/data_objects/24798997
Date: 2013-04-22
Creator: inaturalist
Permission: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License
Source: http://media.eol.org/data_objects/24798889
Date: 2013-02-22
Creator: inaturalist
Permission: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License
Comments: captured with mist nets

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