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Andrei Sakhno, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons / https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Plecotus_austriacus…

IMAGE INFORMATION

Long-eared Bat

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

By 1806

Primary Source Reference:

"Walk through the Museum" (1805-1806), p. 42

Additional Source Text:

"Inhabits Europe."

Notes:

Possibly a bat of the Plecotus genus, the most likely being Plecotus auritus (brown big-eared bat) and Plecotus austriacus (grey long-eared bat), pictured here.

Specimen Type:

Dead/preserved