| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Chiroptera
- ---- family: Emballonuridae
- ----- species: Taphozous mauritianus
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| Characteristics: | insectivore; body-length: 10-11cm, wing-span: 18-20cm; the dorsal pelage is grizzles grey, the ventral fur is characteristically white; the ears are large and triangular; |
| Countries: |
- BW
- Botswana
- MZ
- Mozambique
- NA
- Namibia
- ZA
- South Africa
- ZW
- Zimbabwe
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| Ecoregions: |
- AT0110
- Eastern Congolian swamp forests
- AT0114
- Guinean montane forests
- AT0119
- Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
- AT0128
- Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
- AT0717
- Southern Africa bushveld
- AT0719
- Southern Miombo woodlands
- AT0725
- Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT0726
- Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
- AT1012
- Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
- AT1201
- Albany thickets
- AT1202
- Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
- AT1203
- Montane fynbos and renosterveld
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| References: | Cillié 1997: 208 |
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