slit-faced bats
hollow-faced bats
nycteridae latin

Slit-faced bats roost in caves, trees, and buildings, typically in fairly small colonies.

Hollow-faced or slit-faced bats (nycterids)

Family Nycteridae (hollow-faced bats or slit-faced bats)

Family Nycteridae: slit-faced bats (Africa, Southeast Asia)

The echolocation calls of slit-faced bats are relatively quiet and short in duration, and they seem to target their prey by hearing the sounds it produces, rather than by sonar.

Nycteridae is the family of slit-faced or hollow-faced bats.

Family Nycteridae (Hollow-faced bats)

Family Nycteridae (Hollow-faced bats)

Family Nycteridae (hollow-faced bats or slit-faced bats)

Family Nycteridae: slit-faced bats (Africa, Southeast Asia)

The Gambian Slit-faced Bat (Nycteris gambiensis) is a species of bat in the Nycteridae family.

Handbuch der Säugetiere Europas, Volume 4: Fledertiere, Part II: Chiroptera II (Vespertilionidae 2, Molossidae, Nycteridae).

However, carnivory in bats (capturing other vertebrates excluding fish) has been found in one species of Nycteridae, four species of Megadermatidae, five species of Phyllostomidae, one species of Vespertilionidae and one species of Hipposideridae which adds to less than 1% of all bat species.