Fungal disease may warrant endangered protection for bat species - CNN.com

The northern long-eared bat, left, and the eastern small-footed bat might be endangered species.

(CNN) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has begun the first steps toward determining whether two species of cave-dwelling bats warrant federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.

The service announced Tuesday that a more thorough investigation into the status of eastern small-footed and northern long-eared species of bats will be conducted to determine whether the species can be added to the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife.

Eastern small-footed bats are more common in the northern than in the southern United States while the northern long-eared bats occur across the eastern and north-central United States and throughout the Canadian provinces, officials said in a news statement.

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