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Peropteryx (Peropteryx) trinitatis Miller 1899

Description

Peropteryx (Peropteryx) trinitatis Miller 1899

Peropteryx (Peropteryx) trinitatis Miller 1899, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 12: 178.

Type Locality: Trinidad, Port-of-Spain.

Vernacular Names: Trinidad Dog-like Bat.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Peropteryx (Peropteryx) trinitatis subsp. trinitatis Miller 1899

Subspecies Peropteryx (Peropteryx) trinitatis subsp. phaea G. M. Allen 1911

Distribution: Trinidad and Tobago; Aruba Isl (Netherlands Antilles); Grenada; Venezuela; Margarita Isl (Venezuela); French Guiana.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 – Not evaluated; not considered in IUCN / SSC Microchiropteran Bats Action Plan (2001).

Discussion: Subgenus Peropteryx. Considered a subspecies of macrotis by many authors, but see Brosset and Charles-Dominique (1990) and Simmons and Voss (1998). Includes phaea, see discussion in Genoways et al. (1998).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Emballonuridae, pp. 381-391 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 390, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Miller
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Emballonuridae
Genus
Peropteryx
Species
trinitatis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Peropteryx (Peropteryx) trinitatis Miller, 1899 sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Brosset, A., and P. Charles-Dominique. 1990. The bats from French Guiana: A taxonomic, faunistic and ecological approach. Mammalia, 54: 509 - 559.
  • Simmons, N. B., and R. S. Voss. 1998. The mammals of Paracou, French Guiana: A Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 1. Bats. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 237: 1 - 219.