page_title: Gallagher's free-tailed bat
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Gallagher's free-tailed bat / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Chapin's free-tailed bat, Chaerephon chapini, male with inter-aural crest
context_page_description: Gallagher's free-tailed bat is a free-tailed bat endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Only one individual has ever been documented.
context_section_description: Its fur is umber in color, with the belly paler than its back.
  The fur is short, with individual hairs only 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) long.
  Its flight membranes are grayish-black.
  It is a small free-tailed bat, with a forearm length of 37.5 mm (1.48 in).
  Its total length is 77 mm (3.0 in); its ear length is 19 mm (0.75 in); its tail is 28 mm (1.1 in) long; its hind foot is 8.4 mm (0.33 in) long.
  Its greatest length of skull is 16.0 mm (0.63 in).
  Its ears are large and conjoined via the interaural membrane.
  The interaural membrane has a deep, backwards-facing pocket containing an interaural crest with hairs approximately 9 mm (0.35 in) in length.
  The bat is likely able to evert this pocket to display the crest.
  It is unique in its family due to the presence of large, paired "nasal inflations" similar to those found in the mouse-tailed bats.
  Like other free-tailed bats, its tail extends beyond the margin of the uropatagium.
  It has a blunt snout.
  Its wings are long and narrow.
caption: Male Chapin's free-tailed bat displaying its interaural crest
exif: {"Image Artist": "Elysia Webb", "Image ExifOffset": "2134", "Image XPAuthor": "Elysia Webb", "Image Padding": "[]", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2017:11:05 13:59:35", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2017:11:05 13:59:35", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "79", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "79", "EXIF Padding": "[]"}