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Free-tailed bats


Suborder Vespertilioniformes

Family Molossidae 

Species

Ansorge’s free-tailed bat (Tadarida ansorgei / Chaerephon ansorgei ) 
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Stable
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IUCN
iNaturalist
Spotted free-tailed bat (Tadarida bivittata / Chaerephon bivittatus)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Stable
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Chapin's Pale free-tailed bat (Tadarida chapini / Chaerephon chapini)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Lappet-eared free-tailed bat (Tadarida / Chaerephon major)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Stable
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Nigerian free-tailed bat (Tadarida / Chaerephon nigeriae)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern

Population trend

Unknown
Webite resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Little free-tailed bat (Tadarida pumila / Chaerephon pumilus)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Sierra Leone Free-tailed Bat/Short-winged free-tailed bat (Tadarida brachyptera/Mops brachypterus)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Angolan free-tailed bat (Tadarida condylura/Mops condylurus)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Midas free-tailed bat (Tadarida/Mops midas)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Decreasing
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Dwarf free-tailed bat (Tadarida nanula/Mops nanulus)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
White-bellied free-tailed bat (Tadarida/Mops niveiventer)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Railer free-tailed bat (Tadarida/Mops thersites)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Stable
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Bini free-tailed bat (Myopterus whitleyi)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Decreasing
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Large-eared giant mastiff ball/Free-tailed Bat (Otomops martiensseni)
IUCN conservation status

Near threatened
Population trend

Decreasing
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Robert’s flat-headed bat (Sauromys petrophilus)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Stable
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
Egyptian free-tailed bat (Tadarida aegyptiaca)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
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IUCN
iNaturalist
Arkive
Malagasy free-tailed bat (Tadarida fulminans)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Stable
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IUCN
iNaturalist
Kenyan/Big-eared free-tailed bat (Tadarida lobata)
IUCN conservation status

Least concern
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist
African/Giant free-tailed bat (Tadarida ventralis)
IUCN conservation status

Data deficient
Population trend

Unknown
Website resources
IUCN
iNaturalist

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