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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CHIROPTERA
--> FAMILY Vespertilionidae
--> SUBFAMILY Vespertilioninae
--> TRIBE Eptesicini
--> GENUS Eptesicus
--> SUBGENUS Eptesicus
SPECIES Eptesicus (Eptesicus) serotinus
| Author: | Schreber, 1774. | | Citation: | Die Säugethiere, 1: 167. | | Common Name: | Common Serotine | | Type Locality: | France. | | Distribution: | W Europe through Turkey and S Asiatic Russia to Himalayas, Thailand and China, north to Korea; Taiwan; S England; N Africa; most islands in Mediterranean. Koopman (1993) listed "perhaps Subsaharan Africa" under his account of the range of this species, but there are no known records from that region (M. Happold, pers. comm.) | | Status: | IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Subgenus Eptesicus. Revised by Gaisler (1970), who noted that shiraziensis may be synonymous with turcomanicus. Includes sodalis; see Gaisler (1970) and Corbet (1978c). Includes horikawai; see Jones (1975). See additional comments under fuscus and platyops. Reviewed in part by Harrison and Bates (1991), Bates and Harrison (1997), Horácek et al. (2000), and Baagĝe (2001c). |
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