Bats are of the order Rodentia.
Bats are the second largest order of mammals -LRB- after the rodents -RRB- , representing about 20 % of all classified mammal species worldwide , with about 1,240 bat species divided into two suborders : the less specialized and largely fruit-eating megabats , or flying foxes , and the highly specialized and echolocating microbats.
Rodents -LRB- from Latin rodere , `` to gnaw '' -RRB- are mammals of the order Rodentia , which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.
