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#0057 · 🦊 mammals

Particoloured Bat

🇳🇱 Tweekleurige Vleermuis ·Vespertilio murinus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 in the Netherlands
Particoloured Bat, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Ján Svetlík · CC BY-NC-SA 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

  • NL sightings 4iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 1,168iNaturalist 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

  • 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

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.

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