Photo: WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁 (tbc_watanabe) / CC BY 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
National Natural Monument
Mammals
Japanese House Bat
Pipistrellus abramus
Japan's most familiar small bat, roosting in attics and shutter boxes and flying at dusk to hunt insects. The Saiko Bat Cave in Yamanashi is protected as a cave and bat habitat, together with other bat species.
- Scientific name
- Pipistrellus abramus
- Group
- Mammals
- Prefectures
- Yamanashi
- 日本語
- アブラコウモリ
- 简体中文
- 东亚家蝠
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The Japanese House Bat is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Yamanashi.
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