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Rhinopoma microphyllum

Description

Rhinopoma microphyllum (Brünnich 1782)

[Vespertilio] microphyllus Brünnich 1782, Dyrenes Historie, Vol. 1: 50.

Type Locality: Egypt, restricted to Giza by Koopman (1975).

Vernacular Names: Greater Mouse-tailed Bat.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Rhinopoma microphyllum subsp. microphyllum Brünnich 1782

Subspecies Rhinopoma microphyllum subsp. asirensis Nader and Kock 1982

Subspecies Rhinopoma microphyllum subsp. kinneari Wroughton 1912

Subspecies Rhinopoma microphyllum subsp. sumatrae Thomas 1903

Distribution: Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Nigeria to Afghanistan, Pakista, and India; possibly Burma; Thailand; N Sumatra.

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

Discussion: Reviewed in part by Harrison and Bates (1991) and Kock et al. (2001). Includes hadithaensis, see Kock et al. (2001). Subspecies nomenclature revised by Van Cakenberghe and De Vree (1994); also see Pearch et al. (2001).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Rhinopomatidae, pp. 380-381 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 381, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Rhinopomatidae
Genus
Rhinopoma
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chiroptera
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Brünnich
Species
microphyllum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rhinopoma microphyllum (Brünnich, 1782) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Koopman, K. F. 1975. Bats of the Sudan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 154: 353 - 444.
  • Thomas, O. 1903. Notes on Neotropical mammals of the genera Felis, Hapale, Oryzomys, Akodon, and Ctenomys, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, 12: 234 - 243.
  • Harrison, D. L., and P. J. J. Bates. 1991. The mammals of Arabia, Second ed. Harrison Zoological Museum, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom, 354 pp.
  • Kock, D., M. Al-Jumaily, and A. K. Nasher. 2001. On the genus Rhinopoma E. Geoffroy 1818, and a record of Rh. muscatellum Thomas 1903 from Yemen (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Rhinopomatidae). Senkenbergiana Biologica, 81: 285 - 287.
  • Van Cakenberghe, V., and F. De Vree. 1994. A revision of the Rhinopomatidae Dobson 1872, with the description of a new subspecies. Senkenbergiana Biologica, 73 (1 - 2): 1 - 24.
  • Pearch, M. J., P. J. J. Bates, and C. Magin. 2001. A review of the small mammal fauna of Djibouti and the results of a recent survey. Mammalia, 65: 387 - 409.