Chiroptera (bats)

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Families indigenous to southern Africa

Suborder: Megachiroptera (fruit-eating bats)
	Pteropodidae (fruit bats)
Suborder: Microchiroptera (insect-eating bats)
	Emballonuridae (sheath-tailed bats)   Tropics and subtropics of the world.
	Nycteridae (slit-faced bats)  Africa and southern Asia.
	Rhinolophidae (horseshoe bats, trident and leaf-nosed bats)  Old-world tropics and temperate regions east to Australia.
	Vespertilionidae (vesper bats)  Cosmopolitan.
	Molossidae (free-tailed bats)  Tropics and subtropics of Old and New Worlds.

Families not found in southern Africa (all in the Microchiroptera): Rhinopomatidae (mouse-tailed bats - Morocco, Senegal to Thailand, Sumatra), Craseonycteridae (Hog-nosed Bat Craseonycteris thonglongyai - Thailand), Megadermatidae (false vampire bats, yellow-winged bats - Africa, SE Asia, Australia), Noctilionidae (bulldog bats or fisherman bats - New-world tropics), Mormoopidae (naked-backed bats, moustached bats, ghost-faced bats - North and South America, East Indies), Phyllostomidae (New-world leaf-nosed bats, includes vampire bats - New-world tropics and subtropics), Natalidae (funnel-eared bats, long-legged bats - Mexico - Brazil, East Indies), Furipteridae (smoky bats, thumbless bats - South and Central America), Thyropteridae (disk-winged bats, New-world sucker-footed bats - Central and South America), Myzopodidae (Sucker-footed Bat Myzopoda aurita - Madagascar), Mystacinidae (New Zealand short-tailed bats - New Zealand).