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Plecotus auritus  (Linnaeus, 1758)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 632133

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): brown big-eared bat [English]
  
    Brown Long-eared Bat [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 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  
                                              TribePlecotini Gray, 1866 – long-eared bats  
                                                 GenusPlecotus E. Geoffroy, 1818 – big-eared bats  
                                                    SpeciesPlecotus auritus (Linnaeus, 1758) – brown big-eared bat, Brown Long-eared Bat  
    Direct Children:  
                                                       Subspecies Plecotus auritus auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)  
                                                       Subspecies Plecotus auritus begognae de Paz, 1994  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Don E. Wilson  
  Notes: Smithsonian Institution, MRC 108 Washington DC 20560-0108   
  Reference for: Plecotus auritus    
       
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  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Benda, Petr, Kaveh Faizolâhi, Michal Andreas, Ján Obuch, Antonín Reiter, Martin Sevcik, et al.  
  Publication Date: 2012   
  Article/Chapter Title: Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 10. Bat fauna of Iran   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae, vol. 76   
  Page(s): 163-582   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1211-376X   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Plecotus auritus   
       
  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: Plecotus auritus, Brown Long-eared Bat [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Spitzenberger, Friederike, Peter Strelkov, Hans Winkler, and Elisabeth Haring  
  Publication Date: 2006   
  Article/Chapter Title: A preliminary revision of the genus Plecotus (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) based on genetic and morphological results   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zoologica Scripta, vol. 35, no. 3   
  Page(s): 187-230   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0300-3256   
  Notes: DOI:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00224.x   
  Reference for: Plecotus auritus   
       
  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   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Plecotus auritus, Brown Long-eared Bat [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing   
  Page(s): xviii + 1207   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-217-9   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Plecotus auritus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole  
  Publication Date: 2000   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Common Names of Mammals of the World   
  Page(s): xiv + 204   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-383-3   
  Notes: With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer   
  Reference for: Plecotus auritus, brown big-eared bat [English]   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China)  
       
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 Comments
       
  Comment: Status: IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) - Lower Risk (lc)  
    Comments: Reviewed in part by Yoshiyuki (1989, 1991b), de Paz (1994), Bates and Harrison (1997), Sinha (1999), and Spitzenberger et al. (2001); also see Kiefer and Veith (2001), Kiefer et al. (2002), and Mucedda et al. (2002). Subspecies allocation of populations from northern China, eastern Siberia, and Sakhalin is uncertain. This complex may include more than one species; homochrous may represent a distinct species (Horácek et al., 2000), and it is possible that other forms may also be distinct (se...  
 

 

    

 
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