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SPECIES Tadarida brasiliensis

Author:I. Geoffroy, 1824.
Citation:Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool., 1: 343.
Common Name:Brazilian Free-tailed Bat (known as the Mexican Free-tailed Bat in North America)
Type Locality:Brazil, Paraná, Curitiba (= Curityba).
Distribution:S Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile to Oregon, S Nebraska and Ohio (USA); Greater and Lesser Antilles.
Status:IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (nt).
Comments:aegyptiaca species group. Placed in distinct genus (Rhizomops) by Legendre (1984), but see Freeman (1981) and Owen et al. (1990). See Hall (1981) and Wilkins (1989); also see Emmons (1997) for distribution map. Caribbean subspecies reviewed by Timm and Genoways (2003).
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SUBSPECIES brasiliensis

SUBSPECIES antillularum

SUBSPECIES bahamensis

SUBSPECIES constanzae

SUBSPECIES cynocephala

SUBSPECIES intermedia

SUBSPECIES mexicana

SUBSPECIES murina

SUBSPECIES muscula

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