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Percival's trident bat

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Percival's trident bat, Cloeotis percivali, is a small African bat and the only species in its genus. It lives in sub-Saharan Africa, with its core range in Southern Africa, and has been reported from Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is savanna where caves or mine tunnels offer places to roost. Colonies are never large, holding no more than about 300 individuals, and local numbers fluctuate greatly, so a colony can vanish from a site, perhaps because it moves elsewhere or dies out. Otto Thomas described the species in 1901 from a specimen collected near Takaungu, north of Mombasa in Kenya. The Mammal Diversity Database places it in the family Rhinonycteridae, the trident bats, which was moved out of the Hipposideridae.

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Classification
Living or Extinct
Yes 1
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Child Taxon Of

Rhinonycteridae, Taxa
Source Mammal Diversity Database: Cloeotis percivali (Mammal Diversity Database)

In Biome

Savanna, Biomes
Source Percival's trident bat (Wikipedia)
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Found In

Botswana

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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Cloeotis percivali (Mammal Diversity Database)Country distribution
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Country distribution Botswana · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Eswatini · Kenya · Mozambique · South Africa · Tanzania · Zambia · Zimbabwe
Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Cloeotis percivali (Mammal Diversity Database)Country distribution
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Country distribution Botswana · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Eswatini · Kenya · Mozambique · South Africa · Tanzania · Zambia · Zimbabwe
Eswatini

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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Cloeotis percivali (Mammal Diversity Database)Country distribution
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Country distribution Botswana · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Eswatini · Kenya · Mozambique · South Africa · Tanzania · Zambia · Zimbabwe
Kenya

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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Cloeotis percivali (Mammal Diversity Database)Country distribution
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Country distribution Botswana · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Eswatini · Kenya · Mozambique · South Africa · Tanzania · Zambia · Zimbabwe
Mozambique

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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Cloeotis percivali (Mammal Diversity Database)Country distribution
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Country distribution Botswana · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Eswatini · Kenya · Mozambique · South Africa · Tanzania · Zambia · Zimbabwe
South Africa

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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Cloeotis percivali (Mammal Diversity Database)Country distribution
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Country distribution Botswana · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Eswatini · Kenya · Mozambique · South Africa · Tanzania · Zambia · Zimbabwe
Tanzania

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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Cloeotis percivali (Mammal Diversity Database)Country distribution
Quote, Country distribution
Country distribution Botswana · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Eswatini · Kenya · Mozambique · South Africa · Tanzania · Zambia · Zimbabwe
Zambia

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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Cloeotis percivali (Mammal Diversity Database)Country distribution
Quote, Country distribution
Country distribution Botswana · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Eswatini · Kenya · Mozambique · South Africa · Tanzania · Zambia · Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe

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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Cloeotis percivali (Mammal Diversity Database)Country distribution
Quote, Country distribution
Country distribution Botswana · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Eswatini · Kenya · Mozambique · South Africa · Tanzania · Zambia · Zimbabwe
Sources
1. Mammal Diversity Database: Cloeotis percivali (Mammal Diversity Database)
Mammal Diversity Database
  • Species status
    Species status Living
  • Child Taxon Of: Rhinonycteridae, Taxonomy
    Family: Rhinonycteridae
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Percival's trident bat (Wikipedia)
  • In Group: Bats (Chiroptera), Lead
    is a species of bat
  • In Biome: Savanna, Lead
    Its natural habitats are savannas where there are suitable caves and mine tunnels that it can use for roosting.
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