brown long-eared bat, common long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) Description
Euskara: Plecotus auritus, iparraldeko saguzar belarrihandi arrea hegan
English: The Brown Longeared Bat, Plecotus auritus, flying
Date 24 July 2009
Author Joxerra aihartza
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:16.01a.JRA.jpg
The brown long-eared bat or common long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) is a small European bat. It has distinctive ears, long and with a distinctive fold. It is extremely similar to the much rarer grey long-eared bat which was only validated as a distinct species in the 1960s.
Order: Chiroptera
Suborder: Microchiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Plecotus
Species: Plecotus auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)
