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Genus of bats

Coleura

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Emballonuridae
Genus:	Coleura Peters, 1867
Type species
Emballonura afra Peters, 1852
Species
Coleura afra Coleura seychellensis

Coleura is a genus of sac-winged bats in the family Emballonuridae. It contains four species:

African sheath-tailed bat (C. afra)
Coleura gallarum
Madagascar sheath-tailed bat (C. kibomalandy)
Seychelles sheath-tailed bat (C. seychellensis)

References

Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
"Coleura gallarum". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
"Coleura kibomalandy". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 14 December 2023.

v t e Extant species of family Emballonuridae
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Eutheria Superorder: Laurasiatheria Order: Chiroptera
Balantiopteryx	Ecuadorian sac-winged bat (B. infusca) Thomas's sac-winged bat (B. io) Gray sac-winged bat (B. plicata)
Centronycteris	Thomas's shaggy bat (C. centralis) Shaggy bat (C. maximiliani)
Coleura	African sheath-tailed bat (C. afra) Madagascar sheath-tailed bat (C. kibomalandy) Seychelles sheath-tailed bat (C. seychellensis)
Cormura	Chestnut sac-winged bat (C. brevirostris)
Cyttarops	Short-eared bat (C. alecto)
Diclidurus (Ghost bats)	Northern ghost bat (D. albus) Greater ghost bat (D. ingens) Isabelle's ghost bat (D. isabellus) Lesser ghost bat (D. scutatus)
Emballonura	Small Asian sheath-tailed bat (E. alecto) Beccari's sheath-tailed bat (E. beccarii) Large-eared sheath-tailed bat (E. dianae) Greater sheath-tailed bat (E. furax) Lesser sheath-tailed bat (E. monticola) Raffray's sheath-tailed bat (E. raffrayana) Pacific sheath-tailed bat (E. semicaudata) Seri's sheath-tailed bat (E. serii)
Mosia	Dark sheath-tailed bat (M. nigrescens)
Peropteryx	Greater dog-like bat (P. kappleri) White-winged dog-like bat (P. leucoptera) Lesser dog-like bat (P. macrotis) Pale-winged dog-like bat (P. pallidoptera) Trinidad dog-like bat (P. trinitatis)
Rhynchonycteris	Proboscis bat (R. naso)
Saccolaimus	Yellow-bellied sheath-tailed bat (S. flaviventris) Papuan sheath-tailed bat (S. mixtus) Pel's pouched bat (S. peli) Naked-rumped pouched bat (S. saccolaimus)
Saccopteryx	Antioquian sac-winged bat (S. antioquensis) Greater sac-winged bat (S. bilineata) Frosted sac-winged bat (S. canescens) Amazonian sac-winged bat (S. gymnura) Lesser sac-winged bat (S. leptura)
Taphozous	Indonesian tomb bat (T. achates) Coastal sheath-tailed bat (T. australis) Common sheath-tailed bat (T. georgianus) Hamilton's tomb bat (T. hamiltoni) Hildegarde's tomb bat (T. hildegardeae) Hill's sheath-tailed bat (T. hilli) Arnhem sheath-tailed bat (T. kapalgensis) Long-winged tomb bat (T. longimanus) Mauritian tomb bat (T. mauritianus) Black-bearded tomb bat (T. melanopogon) Naked-rumped tomb bat (T. nudiventris) Egyptian tomb bat (T. perforatus) Theobald's tomb bat (T. theobaldi) Troughton's sheath-tailed bat (T. troughtoni)

Taxon identifiers
Coleura	Wikidata: Q2440514 Wikispecies: Coleura ADW: Coleura BOLD: 88348 CoL: 3S9B EoL: 42236 GBIF: 2433086 iNaturalist: 41390 IRMNG: 1360098 ITIS: 631314 MSW: 13800975 NCBI: 461397 Open Tree of Life: 846882

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