Order chiroptera

Order chiroptera Shared By Abdul Qahar Buneri

2. Topic : Order chiroptera
•Submitted to : Sir zaher Ahmad
•Submitted by : Seema Hassan
» Fazal raqib
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3. Chiroptera
(hand-wing)

4. CLASSIFICATION
KINGDOM: ANIMALIA
•PHYLUM: CHORDATA
•CLASS: MAMMALIA
•ORDER: CHIROPTERA (mega or micro)
•FAMILIES: 18 (1 mega 17 micro)
•GENERAS:170
•SPECIES:850

5. Bat Basics: Anatomy
•Arm and hand bones are elongated to support the wing

6. Pest control
•Bats Help to Control Pests
One bat may eat ~ 500 mosquitoes/hour
•~ 10 hours/night = 5,000 mosquitoes

7. Bat Basics: Benefits
•Bats Pollinate
Flowers

8. Bats disperse the seeds and pollinate the
flowers of many plants.
Fruits that depend on bats for pollination
or seed dispersal include:
bananas, mango
peaches, , guava,
dates, cashews,
carob, figs,
avocados,
jack fruit,
plantains,

9. Dietary characters
•fruit bats: fruits and flowers
•Vampire bats: blood (bats of only one species are obligately
hematophagous)
•Other bats: insects (moths, ants, termites, wasps, leafhoppers,
beetles, crickets, flies, bugs, midges, mosquitoes, and others)

10. Order Chiroptera
•only true flying mammals
•date to Eocene (50 mya)
•worldwide
–17 families
–170 genera
–850 species
•suborders
–Megachiroptera-flying foxes of tropics
–Microchiroptera-worldwide

11. Megabats
•1 family, 170 species
•Tropics/subtropics
•Frugivores
•Nectarivores
•Insectivores
•Food located by sight/smell
•Very well developed eyes
•Wingspans up to 6 feet

12. Characteristics of Megabats
•They have large
Eyes
•Small Ears
•Large noses
•Large wings
•Dark in colour

13. Microbats
•17 FAMILIES 780 SPECIES
•MORE DIVERSE THAN MEGABATS
•FOUND WORLDWIDE EXCEPT POLAR
REGIONS
•USE ECHOLOCATION TO NAVIGATE IN
DARK FOR FOOD
•INSECTIVORES, SOME
CARNIVORES/NECTARIVORES
•3 SPECIES EAT BLOOD (SANGIVORES)

14. CHARACTERISTICS OF MICROBATS
•They have small
eyes
•Specialized\
•developed ears
•Nose leaves
•Small wings
•Light in colour

15. OF ALL BATS IN THE WORLD:
•2/3 EAT INSECTS
•1/3 EAT NECTAR
•1% EAT FROGS, MICE, FISH,
SMALL INVERTS
•< 1/3 OF 1% ARE VAMPIRE

16. Little Brown Myotis
Myotis lucifugus

17. Little Brown Myotis
Just the facts:
•PA’s most common bat
•6-9 grams
•may live to 25 years
•favors ponds and streams for foraging
•forages at about 13 mph, 3-6 m above ground
•mate in early autumn; fertilization in spring upon rousing;
50-60 day gestation
•move to maternity colonies of hundreds
•born after 30 minute labor in late May weighing1.5 grams
•reaches sexual maturity at 8 mos.

18. Indiana Myotis/Pink-faced Bat
Myotis sodalis
Federally Endangered

19. Small-footed Myotis
Myotis leibii
PA Threatened

20. Silver-haired Bat
Lasionycteris noctivagans

21. Eastern Pipistrelle
Pipistrellus subflavus

22. Big Brown Bat
Eptesicus fuscus

23. Red Bat
Lasiurus borealis

24. Hoary Bat
Lasiurus cinereus

25. Evening Bat
Nycticeius humeralis

26. Vampire Bat