#0057 · 🦊 mammals
Particoloured Bat
🇳🇱 Tweekleurige Vleermuis ·Vespertilio murinus
📍 Новинки, Нижегородская обл., Россия, 607635
📍 Marijampolė, Lithuania
📍 Ульяновск, Ульяновская обл., Россия
📍 Khentii, MN
📍 Sjælland, Slangerup, Hovedstaden, DK
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ján Svetlík · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Rudo Jureček · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Milos Andera/www.naturefoto.com · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Magne Flåten · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. © Hanna Knutsson · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. Новинки, Нижегородская обл., Россия, 607635:© Александра Коломиец · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Marijampolė, Lithuania:© Ausra Zilinskiene · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Ульяновск, Ульяновская обл., Россия:© Михаил Калагин · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Khentii, MN:© Nyambayar Batbayar · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Sjælland, Slangerup, Hovedstaden, DK:© henrikkronborg · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The parti-coloured bat or rearmouse ( Vespertilio murinus ) is a species of vesper bat that lives in temperate Eurasia - Central and Eastern Europe, in some parts of Western and Southern Europe and Asia. Occurs eastwards over the Caucasus and Iran into Mongolia, north-east China, Korea, Afghanistan and northern Pakistan....
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
- Spotted 4 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,168 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Particoloured Bat
- Nederlands
- Tweekleurige Vleermuis
- scientific name
- Vespertilio murinus
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Chiroptera
- family
- Vespertilionidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 4
- sightings in Europe
- 823
- sightings worldwide
- 1,168
- GBIF records in NL
- 290
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Vespertilionidae
#0021 📷 8Common Pipistrelle
🇳🇱 Gewone Dwergvleermuis
Pipistrellus pipistrellus
LC 👀 66 in NL
#0024 📷 9Daubenton's bat
🇳🇱 Watervleermuis
Myotis daubentonii
LC 👀 60 in NL
#0026 📷 10Brown Long-eared Bat
🇳🇱 Bruine Grootoorvleermuis
Plecotus auritus
LC 👀 52 in NL
#0036 📷 10Natterer's Bat
🇳🇱 Franjestaart
Myotis nattereri
LC 👀 22 in NL
#0037 📷 10Nathusius' Pipistrelle
🇳🇱 Nathusiusdwergvleermuis
Pipistrellus nathusii
LC 👀 21 in NL
#0038 📷 8Eurasian Serotine
🇳🇱 Laatvlieger
Cnephaeus serotinus
LC 👀 20 in NL
#0039 📷 10Common Noctule
🇳🇱 Rosse Vleermuis
Nyctalus noctula
LC 👀 16 in NL
#0042 📷 10pond bat
🇳🇱 Meervleermuis
Myotis dasycneme
NT 👀 14 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 40446, Wikidata Q232644, GBIF 2432564, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.
