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Macrotus waterhousii Gray 1843

Description

Macrotus waterhousii Gray 1843

Macrotus waterhousii Gray 1843, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1843: 21.

Type Locality: Haiti.

Vernacular Names: Waterhouse's Leaf-nosed Bat.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Macrotus waterhousii subsp. waterhousii Gray 1843

Subspecies Macrotus waterhousii subsp. bulleri H. Allen 1890

Subspecies Macrotus waterhousii subsp. compressus Rehn 1904

Subspecies Macrotus waterhousii subsp. jamaicensis Rehn 1904

Subspecies Macrotus waterhousii subsp. mexicanus Saussure 1860

Subspecies Macrotus waterhousii subsp. minor Gundlach 1864

Distribution: Sonora and Hidalgo (Mexico) south to Guatemala; Bahama Isls; Jamaica; Cuba; Cayman Isls (NW of Jamaica); Hispaniola and Beata Isls.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Includes mexicanus; see Anderson and Nelson (1965). See Anderson (1969 a). Caribbean forms reviewed by Timm and Genoways (2003).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Phyllostomidae, pp. 395-426 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 407, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gray
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Phyllostomidae
Genus
Macrotus
Species
waterhousii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Macrotus waterhousii Gray, 1843 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Gray, J. E. 1843. List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 216 pp.
  • Anderson, S., and C. E. Nelson. 1965. A systematic revision of Macrotus (Chiroptera). American Museum Novitates, 2212: 1 - 39.
  • Anderson, S. 1969 a. Macrotus waterhousii. Mammalian Species, 1: 1 - 4.
  • Timm, R. M., and H. H. Genoways. 2003. West Indian mammals from the Albert Schwartz Collection: Biological and historical information. Scientific Papers, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, 29: 1 - 47.