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Vespadelus  Troughton, 1943
Taxonomic Serial No.: 945890

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): Baverstock's Forest Bat [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2021   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderChiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 – morcego, quiróptero, bats  
                                  SuborderYangochiroptera Koopman, 1984  
                                     SuperfamilyVespertilionoidea Gray, 1821  
                                        FamilyVespertilionidae Gray, 1821 – vesper bats, vespertilionid bats, evening bats  
                                           SubfamilyVespertilioninae Gray, 1821  
                                              TribeVespertilionini Gray, 1821  
                                                 GenusVespadelus Troughton, 1943 – Baverstock's Forest Bat  
    Direct Children:  
                                                    Species Vespadelus baverstocki (Kitchener, Jones and Caputi, 1987) – Baverstock's Forest Bat, Inland Forest Bat 
                                                    Species Vespadelus caurinus (Thomas, 1914) – Northern Cave Bat, Little Brown Bat, Little Northern Cave Bat, Western Cave Bat 
                                                    Species Vespadelus darlingtoni (G. M. Allen, 1933) – Large Forest Bat, Large Forest Eptesicus, Large Forest Vespadelus 
                                                    Species Vespadelus douglasorum (Kitchener, 1976) – Yellow-lipped Cave Bat, Kimberley Cave Bat, Yellow-lipped Bat 
                                                    Species Vespadelus finlaysoni (Kitchener, Jones and Caputi, 1987) – Finlayson's Forest Bat, Finlayson's Cave Bat, Inland Cave Bat, Little Brown Bat, Little Cave Eptesicus 
                                                    Species Vespadelus pumilus (Gray, 1841) – Little Brown Bat, Eastern Forest Bat 
                                                    Species Vespadelus regulus (Thomas, 1906) – Southern Forest Bat, King River Little Bat, King River Pipistrelle 
                                                    Species Vespadelus troughtoni (Kitchener, Jones and Caputi, 1987) – Eastern Cave Bat, Troughton's Vespadelus, Troughton's Forest Bat 
                                                    Species Vespadelus vulturnus (Thomas, 1914) – Little Forest Bat, Little Brown Bat, Small Forest Eptesicus, Vulturine Little Bat 
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Simmons, Nancy B. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title: Order Chiroptera   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2   
  Page(s): 312-529   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Vespadelus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, D. E., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2019   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Handbook of the Mammals of the World. 9. Bats   
  Page(s): 1008   
  Publisher: Lynx Edicions   
  Publication Place: Barcelona, Spain   
  ISBN/ISSN: 978-84-16728190   
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  Reference for: Vespadelus   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Comments: Vespadelus was first published as a nomen nudum (no accompanying diagnosis) by Iredale and Troughton (1934); the name was made available by Troughton (1943), who provided a diagnosis. Often included in Pipistrellus (e.g., Hill and Harrison, 1987) or Eptesicus (e.g., Adams et al., 1987; Kitchener et al., 1987; Koopman, 1993, 1994; McKean et al., 1978), but see Volleth and Tidemann (1991) and Volleth and Heller (1994). Revised by Kitchener et al. (1987); see also Adams et al. (1987) and Queal...  
 

 

    

 
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