#0155 · 🦊 mammals

Mouse-eared Bat

🇳🇱 Vale Vleermuis ·Myotis myotis

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Ján Svetlík · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © roberto_sindaco · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Mathias D'haen · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Mathias D'haen · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Klaus Rassinger · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. 8283, Österreich:© Johanna Linhart · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Leipzig, DE-SN, DE:© Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Luxembourg:© Claude Kolwelter · CC BY 4.0
10. Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, FR:© Benjamin Monod-Broca · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The greater mouse-eared bat ( Myotis myotis ) is a European species of bat in the family Vespertilionidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 920iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
920 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen in 1797 (229 years ago).