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Scotophilus heathii Horsfield 1831

Description

Scotophilus heathii Horsfield 1831

Scotophilus heathii Horsfield 1831, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1831: 113.

Type Locality: India, Madras.

Vernacular Names: Greater Asiatic Yellow House Bat.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Scotophilus heathii subsp. heathii Horsfield 1831

Subspecies Scotophilus heathii subsp. insularis Allen 1906

Subspecies Scotophilus heathii subsp. watkinsi Sanborn 1952

Distribution: Afghanistan to S China, including Hainan Isl, south to Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma.

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

Discussion: May include celebensis; see Tate (1942 a) and Sinha (1980). Reviewed in part by Bates and Harrison (1997) and Hendrichsen et al. (2001 b). Populations from Vietnam have not been allocated to subspecies. Sometimes spelled heathi (e.g., Koopman, 1993).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, pp. 451-529 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 466, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Horsfield
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Vespertilionidae
Genus
Scotophilus
Species
heathii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Scotophilus heathii Horsfield, 1831 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Tate, G. H. H. 1942 a. Review of the vespertilionine bats, with special attention to genera and species of the Archbold collections. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 80: 221 - 297.
  • Sinha, Y. P. 1980. The bats of Rajasthan: Taxonomy and zoogeography. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 76: 7 - 63.
  • Hendrichsen, D. K., P. J. J. Bates, B. D. Hayes, and J. L. Walston. 2001 b. Recent records of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Vietnam with six species new to the country. Myotis, 39: 35 - 122.
  • Koopman, K. F. 1993. Order Chiroptera. Pp. 137 - 241, in Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., 1207 pp.