Dichotomous Key/Chiroptera
< Dichotomous Key| Chiroptera | |
|---|---|
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum | Chordata |
| Subphylum | Vertebrata |
| Class | Mammalia |
| Subclass | Placentalia |
| Order | Chiroptera |
| Parent key: Mammalia |
| Subclasses |
|---|
| Marsupialia - Monotremata - Placentalia |
| Key: Mammalia |
| Orders |
| Afrosoricida - Artiodactyla - Carnivora - Cetacea - Chiroptera - Dermoptera - Insectivora - Lagomorpha - Macroselidae - Marsupialia - Monotremata - Perissodactyla - Pholidota - Primates - Proboscidea - Rodentia - Scandentia - Sirenia - Xenarthra |
1
- Claw on second toes of the forelimb
- Present - #2: Megachiroptera
- Not present - #3: Microchiroptera
3: Microchiroptera
- Tail length
- Long - Rhinopomatidae
- Short or absent - #4
4
- Shape of posterior tip of last caudal vertebrae
- T-shaped - Nycteridae
- Same as other vertebrae - #5
5
6
- Number of phalanges
- Two, united for most of their length - Myzopodidae
- Other - Thyropteridae
7
- Secondary fold on tragus
- Present - Mormoopidae
- Not present, or tragus not present - #8
8
- Tragus
- Divided - Megadermatidae
- Not divided, or not present - #9
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