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spyglassrealms
2 years ago
Wikipedia screenshot titled "Common Pipistrelle" with the first line of the article that reads "The common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) is a small pipistrelle microbat"
Wikipedia screenshot that reads, "Keyserling and Blasius reclassified the species, naming it Vesperugo pipistrellus. This classification stood until 1897, when Miller placed the species into the genus Pipistrellus, where it remains as Pipistrellus pipistrellus. Its species name "pipistrellus" is derived from the Italian word pipistrello, which means "bat."

"The common bat (Bat bat) is a small bat microbat"

this bat is the most bat of any bat ever

Close up photo of the common pipistrelle sitting on a leaf. It is a very small bat with a round fuzzy body covered in golden fur. Its wings are tucked up against its body, and it has a face with a pointed nose, shiny black eyes and smallish ears for a bat.

absolute maximum quantity of bat in this guy

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I fucking hate phylogeny but fucking love when taxonomists do this like Iguana iguana or Gorilla gorilla that sure is an Animal. the most Animal of its kind. nailed it. got it in one. that or when they name a species 'inexpectatus' like oh shit we didn't um. we didn't actually think we'd find that here. what the fuck is this guy doing here. science Biology taxonomy phylogeny
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