Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Lasiurus cinereus

Description

Lasiurus cinereus (Beauvois, 1796). Cat. Raisonne Mus. Peale Philadelphia, p. 18.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

DISTRIBUTION: Colombia and Venezuela to C Chile, Uruguay, and C Argentina; Hawaii (USA); Guatemala and Mexico throughout the USA to S British Columbia, SE Mackensie, Hudson Bay and S Quebec (Canada); Galapagos; Bermuda; accidental on Cuba, Hispaniola, Iceland, and the Orkney Isis (Scotland).

STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered as L. c. semotus.

SYNONYMS: brasiliensis, grayi, mexicana, pallescens, pruinosus, semotus, villosissimus.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Lasiurus. Includes villosissimus, and semotus; see Sanborn and Crespo (1957:12), who revised the species. See Shump and Shump (1982b, Mammalian Species, 185).

Notes

Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 206-207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060

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Biodiversity

Family
Vespertilionidae
Genus
Lasiurus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chiroptera
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Beauvois
Species
cinereus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lasiurus cinereus (Beauvois, 1796) sec. Koopman, 1993

References

  • Sanborn, C. C., and J. A. Crespo. 1957. El Murcielago Blanquizco (Lasiurus cinereus) y sus subspecies. Boletin del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales " Bernardino Rivadavia ", 4: 1 - 13.
  • Shump, K. A., and A. U. Shump. 1982 b. Lasiurus cinereus. Mammalian Species, 185: 1 - 5.