{{Short description|Genus of bats}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Lesser Bamboo Bat.JPG | image_caption = Lesser bamboo bat (''Tylonycteris pachypus'') | taxon = Tylonycteris | authority = Peters, 1872 | type_species = ''Vespertilio pachypus'' | type_species_authority = Temminck, 1840 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}
The '''bamboo bats''' are a genus of vesper bats in the genus '''''Tylonycteris'''''. The name translates as "padded bat", and refers to the presence of hairless fleshy pads on the hands and feet, which the bats use to help them grip onto bamboo.<ref name=Eguren2014>{{cite journal |author1=Eguren, R.E. |author2=McBee, K. |name-list-style=amp | date = October 2014 | title = ''Tylonycteris pachypus'' (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)| journal = Mammalian Species | issue = 910 | pages = 33–39 | doi = 10.1644/910 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>[https://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/bats/bamboo-bats.htm Bamboo Bats - ''Tylonycteris'' spp.] Ecology Asia.</ref> The species in this genus roost within bamboo shoots.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Tu |first=Vuong Tan |last2=Csorba |first2=Gábor |last3=Ruedi |first3=Manuel |last4=Furey |first4=Neil M. |last5=Son |first5=Nguyen Truong |last6=Thong |first6=Vu Dinh |last7=Bonillo |first7=Céline |last8=Hassanin |first8=Alexandre |date=2017-02-09 |title=Comparative phylogeography of bamboo bats of the genus Tylonycteris (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in Southeast Asia |url=https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/398/835 |journal=European Journal of Taxonomy |language=en |issue=274 |doi=10.5852/ejt.2017.274 |issn=2118-9773|doi-access=free }}</ref>
The species within this genus are:
* Blyth's bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris fulvida'' * Malayan bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris malayana'' * Lesser bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris pachypus'' * Pygmy bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris pygmaeus'' * Greater bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris robustula'' * Tonkin bamboo bat, ''Tylonycteris tonkinensis'' Traditionally, the genus was considered to have only two species, ''T. robustula'' and ''T. pachypus''. A new species, ''pygmaea'', was described in 2008, a 2014 study analyzed the subspecies ''T. pachypus fulvida'' as distinct enough to be a full species, and then ''T. tonkinensis'' and ''T. malayana'' were split from ''T. robustula'' based in a 2017 by Tu et al.<ref name=":0" />
==References== {{Reflist}} *D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2005: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore {{Vespertilionidae|V.|V.}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q1065036}}
Category:Tylonycteris Category:Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters
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