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Giant Red Bat

Lasiurus egregius

Classification

The big red bat (Lasiurus egregius) is a species of vesper bat from South and Central America. Taxonomy It was described as a new species in 1870 by German naturalist Wilhelm Peters. Peters placed it in the now-defunct genus Atalpha, with a binomial of Atalpha egregia.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
BrazilFrance