Bat Species in Parks

This is the list of bat species identified in national parks and recorded in NPSpecies. More than 50 unique species of bats live in national parks! For a detailed report on species of bats in national parks, read A macroecological perspective on strategic bat conservation in the US National Park Service by lead author and NPS Ecologist Tom Rodhouse.

	Scientific Name	Common Name	# Parks
1	Eptesicus fuscus	Big brown bat	178
2	Lasiurus cinereus	Hoary bat	127
3	Myotis lucifugus	Little brown myotis	123
4	Lasionycteris noctivagans	Silver-haired bat	108
5	Lasiurus borealis	Eastern red bat	90
6	Tadarida brasiliensis	Mexican free-tailed bat	75
7	Myotis californicus	California myotis	74
8	Corynorhinus townsendii	Townsend's big-eared bat	73
9	Myotis volans	Long-legged myotis	69
10	Perimyotis subflavus	Tricolored bat	69
11	Myotis ciliolabrum	Western small-footed myotis	67
12	Myotis yumanensis	Yuma myotis	66
13	Myotis thysanodes	Fringed myotis	65
14	Antrozous pallidus	Pallid bat	61
15	Myotis evotis	Western long-eared myotis	56
16	Myotis septentrionalis	Northern long-eared myotis	56
17	Parastrellus hesperus	Canyon bat	53
18	Nycticeius humeralis	Evening bat	37
19	Nyctinomops macrotis	Big free-tailed bat	31
20	Euderma maculatum	Spotted bat	30
21	Lasiurus blossevillii	Western red bat	21
22	Myotis leibii	Eastern small-footed myotis	16
23	Eumops perotis	Western mastiff bat	14
24	Idionycteris phyllotis	Allen's big-eared bat	13
25	Myotis grisescens	Gray myotis	13
26	Myotis velifer	Cave myotis	12
27	Lasiurus seminolus	Seminole bat	11
28	Myotis sodalis	Indiana myotis	11
29	Corynorhinus rafinesquii	Rafinesque's big-eared bat	10
30	Myotis auriculus	Southwestern myotis	9
31	Nyctinomops femorosaccus	Pocketed free-tailed bat	8
32	Choeronycteris mexicana	Mexican long-tongued bat	6
33	Lasiurus cinereus semotus	Hawaiian hoary bat	6
34	Lasiurus intermedius	Northern yellow bat	6
35	Myotis austroriparius	Southeastern myotis	6
36	Lasiurus xanthinus	Western yellow bat	5
37	Macrotus californicus	California leaf-nosed bat	5
38	Leptonycteris yerbabuenae	Lesser long-nosed bat	4
39	Mormoops megalophylla	Ghost-face bat	2
40	Artibeus jamaicensis	Jamaican fruit-eating bat	1
41	Brachyphylla cavernarum	Antillean fruit-eating bat	1
42	Corynorhinus townsendii ingens	Ozark big-eared bat	1
43	Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus	Virginia big-eared bat	1
44	Diphylla ecaudata	Hairy-legged vampire bat	1
45	Eumops floridanus	Florida bonneted bat	1
46	Eumops underwoodi	Underwood's mastiff bat	1
47	Molossus molossus	Pallas's mastiff bat	1
48	Myotis occultus	Arizona myotis	1
49	Noctilio leporinus	Greater bulldog bat	1
50	Stenoderma rufum	Red fig-eating bat	1
51	Leptonycteris nivalis	Mexican long-nosed bat	1
52	Pteropus samoensis	Samoan flying fox	1
53	Pteropus tonganus	Pacific flying fox	1

These species of bats used to live in War in the Pacific National Historic Park in Guam, but they have been extirpated (locally extinct):

Pteropus tokudae	Guam flying fox
Pteropus mariannus	Marianus flying fox
Emballonura semicaudata	Polynesian sheath-tailed bat

According to range maps of some bats, it's possible for these species to be in national parks, but they haven't been recorded in NPSpecies:

Myotis keenii	Keen's myotis
Mormoops blainvillii	Antillean ghost-faced bat
Pteronotus parnellii	Common mustached bat
Pteronotus quadridens	Sooty mustached bat
Erophylla bombifrons	Brown flower bat
Natalus mexicanus	Mexican greater funnel-eared bat
Lasiurus ega	Southern yellow bat
Lasiurus minor	Little red bat