New Zealand Mammals
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11002-04101 Northern short-tailed bat, or pekapeka tou poto (Mystacina tuberculata auporica) feeding on pollen from the parasitic woodrose (Dactylanthus taylorii) on the forest floor. This curiously semiterrestrial, omnivorous bat is the only surviving species in the bat family Mystacinidae, which is the only mammalian family endemic to New Zealand. Little Barrier Island *
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