When you make a character, could you please put more thought into it than "what general type should it be?"

FOR EXAMPLE.

I just saw a reference sheet with the following text.

Species: Bat

"Bat" is not a species. The ORDER Chiroptera comprises about 1,240 different species of bat.

Instead of saying "bat" you could perhaps say "fish-eating bat" or "Kitti's hog-nosed bat" or even "golden crowned flying fox."

"Bat" doesn't cut it.

This isn't limited to bats, either. Here is a list of commonly used animal classifications often used as species:

Fish

Parrot

Bear

Dinosaur

Bug (which actually is the name for only insects in the orders Hemiptera and Homoptera)

Moth

Lizard

Snake

Turtle

And I could go on and on.

PLEASE NOTE: I'm not really opening this for discussion. Yes, I realize that sometimes it's just too much work to do research on your chosen animal. I realize that sometimes you want to just have the general aspects of a creature, such as large wings, a weird-shaped nose, and big ears. But please, for the love of science, don't call it a species if that's not what the taxonomic classification is.

I'm a biologist, what can I say?