Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Chordata (phylum)
8. Vertebrata (subphylum)
9. Mammalia (class)
10. Chiroptera (order)
11. Desmodontidae (family)
12. Eptesicus (genus)

Anotations

Scope note:

Common North American species of relatively large brown bat that is distinct from the stoutly built Eurasian brown bat. Characterized as nocturnal, roosting during the day in hollow trees beneath loose tree bark, in the crevices of rocks or in man-made structures such as attics, barns, old buildings, eaves and window shutters.