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SPECIES Tadarida aegyptiaca
Author: | E. Geoffroy, 1818. | Citation: | Descrip. de L'Egypte, 2: 128. | Common Name: | Egyptian Free-tailed Bat | Type Locality: | Egypt, Giza (resticted by Koopman, 1975). | Distribution: | South Africa to Nigeria, Algeria, and Egypt to Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman, east to India and Sri Lanka, N to Afganistan. | Status: | IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | aegyptiaca species group. Includes tragata; see Corbet (1978c) and Freeman (1981). Reviewed in part by Harrison and Bates (1991) and Bates and Harrison (1997). For African range see Taylor (2000a). |
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