Shaggy bat

The shaggy bat (Centronycteris maximiliani) is a bat of the family Emballonuridae, the sac-winged and sheath-tailed bats, found in northern and eastern South America. The Mammal Diversity Database records it from Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, credits its description to J. B. Fischer in 1829 under the original name Vespertilio maximiliani, and lists it as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. It is an aerial insectivore that appears to be a slow flier and has a rather regular pattern of foraging in its home range, a feature it shares with other emballonurids. Thomas's shaggy bat (Centronycteris centralis) was previously included in this species, until Simmons and Handley showed in 1998 that the two are distinct.