Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of La Touche's free-tailed bat (Tadarida latouchei), recorded as Endangered
La Touche's free-tailed bat (Tadarida latouchei). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Endangered

La Touche's free-tailed bat

Tadarida latouchei

La Touche's free-tailed bat is a bat in the family Molossidae (order Chiroptera) — Tadarida latouchei, recorded as Endangered.

Status
Endangered
Scientific name
Tadarida latouchei
Taxonomy
Mammalia · Chiroptera · Molossidae · Tadarida

The bat

This is a named wild mammal with a photograph and a threat category on the public record.

Range and habitat

It is found in China, Japan, and Thailand.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

In crisis

La Touche's free-tailed bat is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on La Touche's free-tailed bat — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q1830830. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Quick answers

What is La Touche's free-tailed bat?
La Touche's free-tailed bat is a bat in the family Molossidae (order Chiroptera) — Tadarida latouchei.
What is the conservation status of La Touche's free-tailed bat?
Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Tadarida latouchei. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does La Touche's free-tailed bat live?
It is found in China, Japan, and Thailand.
Why is La Touche's free-tailed bat in crisis?
It is Endangered on Wikidata. Read the official Red List assessment for the criteria.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Tadarida latouchei?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is La Touche's free-tailed bat a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.