#0415 · 🦊 mammals
Greater Sac-winged Bat
🇳🇱 Grote Tweestrepige Zakvleermuis ·Saccopteryx bilineata
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jason Headley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Jason Headley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Ryan Shaw · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © David Rodríguez Arias · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Gerald Carter · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Orange Walk District, Belize:© Sean Werle · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Gamboa, Panama:© Hubert Szczygieł · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. El Corchito:© Juan Cruzado Cortés · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Gamboa, Panama:© Hubert Szczygieł · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The greater sac-winged bat ( Saccopteryx bilineata ) is a bat of the family Emballonuridae native to Central and South America.
base stats
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.
- 2,832 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 9 g.
- Scientifically named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1838 (188 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Greater Sac-winged Bat
- Nederlands
- Grote Tweestrepige Zakvleermuis
- scientific name
- Saccopteryx bilineata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Chiroptera
- family
- Emballonuridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 2,832
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- 8.9 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1838 by Coenraad Jacob Temminck
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Emballonuridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 41337, Wikidata Q1548367, GBIF 5218731, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.