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Scotozous Dobson 1875

Description

Scotozous Dobson 1875

Scotozous Dobson 1875, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1875: 372.

Type Species: Scotozous dormeri Dobson 1875

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Scotozous dormeri Dobson 1875

Discussion: Included in Pipistrellus by some authors (e.g., Bates and Harrison, 1997; Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Koopman, 1993, 1994; Sinha, 1999), but see Corbet and Hill (1992). Considered congeneric with Scotoecus by Menu (1987), but see Hill and Harrison (1987) and Corbet and Hill (1992). Phylogenetic relationships were discussed by Volleth and Heller (1994).

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 479, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Vespertilionidae
Genus
Scotozous
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chiroptera
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Dobson
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Scotozous Dobson, 1875 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.
  • 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.
  • Koopman, K. F. 1994. Chiroptera: Systematics. Handbook of Zoology, vol. VIII, pt. 60, Mammalia, 1 - 217.
  • Sinha, Y. P. 1999. Contribution to the knowledge of bats (Mammalia; Chiroptera) of North East Hills, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Papers, 174: 1 - 52.
  • Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1992. Mammals of the Indomalayan region. A systematic review. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 488 pp.
  • Menu, H. 1987. Morphotypes dentaires actuels et fossiles des chiropteres. Palaeovertebrata, 17: 77 - 150.
  • Hill, J. E., and D. L. Harrison. 1987. The baculum in the Vespertilioninae (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) with a systematic review, a synopsis of Pipistrellus and Eptesicus, and the description of a new genus and subgenus. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 52 (7): 225 - 305.
  • Volleth, M., and K. - G. Heller. 1994. Phylogenetic relationships of vespertilionid genera (Mammalia: Chiroptera) as revealed by karyological analysis. Zeitschrift fur Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung, 32: 11 - 34.