#0069 · 🦊 mammals

Soprano Pipistrelle

🇳🇱 Kleine Dwergvleermuis ·Pipistrellus pygmaeus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Yuzefovich Alexander · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Yannick Juvé · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Taisiya Manyuk · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Jérémie Février · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © David Barros Cardona · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Achterwehr, Deutschland:© Stefan · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Bologne, 34080 Montpellier, France:© Mathieu Pélissié · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Lower Harlestone Garden Centre, Northampton NN5 6UJ, UK:© harrietmoss · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Windsor SL4 4AY, UK:© no rights reserved · CC0

what is it?

The soprano pipistrelle ( Pipistrellus pygmaeus ) is a small bat that in taxonomy was only formally separated from the common pipistrelle ( Pipistrellus pipistrellus ) in 1999.

base stats

NL sightings 1iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,478iNaturalist 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).