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Pipistrellus Kaup, 1829
Taxonomic Serial No.: 180023

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Pipistrellus (Pipistrellus) Kaup, 1829
	Common Name(s):	pipistrelles [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


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals
	Subclass	Theria Parker and Haswell, 1897
	Infraclass	Eutheria Gill, 1872
	Order	Chiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 – morcego, quiróptero, bats
	Suborder	Yangochiroptera Koopman, 1984
	Superfamily	Vespertilionoidea Gray, 1821
	Family	Vespertilionidae Gray, 1821 – vesper bats, vespertilionid bats, evening bats
	Subfamily	Vespertilioninae Gray, 1821
	Tribe	Pipistrellini Tate, 1942 – pipistrelles
	Genus	Pipistrellus Kaup, 1829 – pipistrelles
		Direct Children:
	Species	Pipistrellus abramus (Temminck, 1838) – Japanese Pipistrelle, Japanese House Bat
	Species	Pipistrellus adamsi Kitchener, Caputi and Jones, 1986 – Forest Pipistrelle, Cape York Pipistrelle, Adams's Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus aero Heller, 1912 – Mount Gargues pipistrelle, Mt. Gargues Pipistrelle, Kenya Pipistrelle, Aerial Pipistrelle Bat
	Species	Pipistrellus angulatus (Peters, 1880) – Angulate Pipistrelle, New Guinea Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus ceylonicus (Kelaart, 1852) – Kelaart's Pipistrelle, Black Gilded Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus collinus Thomas, 1920 – Mountain Pipistrelle, Greater Papuan Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus coromandra (Gray, 1838) – Indian Pipistrelle, Coromandel Pipistrelle, Little Indian Bat
	Species	Pipistrellus creticus Benda, 2009 – Crete Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus dhofarensis Benda, Reiter, Uhrin and Varadínová, 2016 – Dhofar Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus endoi Imaizumi, 1959 – Endo's Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus hanaki Hulva and Benda, 2004 – Hanak's Pipistrelle, Hanak's Dwarf Bat
	Species	Pipistrellus hesperidus (Temminck, 1840) – Dusky Pipistrelle, African Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus inexspectatus Aellen, 1959 – Aellen's Pipistrelle, Central African Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus javanicus (Gray, 1838) – Javan Pipistrelle, Java Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus kuhlii (Kuhl, 1817) – Kuhl's Pipistrelle, Great Pipistrelle, White Stripe Bat
	Species	Pipistrellus maderensis (Dobson, 1878) – Madeira Pipistrelle, Madeiran Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus minahassae (A. Meyer, 1899) – Minahassa Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus murrayi Andrews, 1900 – Christmas Island Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus nanulus Thomas, 1904 – Tiny Pipistrelle, Dwarf Pipistrelle Bat
	Species	Pipistrellus nathusii (Keyserling and Blasius, 1839) – Nathusius's Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus papuanus (Peters and Doria, 1881) – Lesser Papuan Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus paterculus Thomas, 1915 – Mount Popa Pipistrelle, Paternal Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus permixtus Aellen, 1957 – Dar-es-Salaam Pipistrelle, Tanzania Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774) – Common Pipistrelle, Small House Bat
	Species	Pipistrellus pygmaeus (Leach, 1825) – Soprano Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus raceyi Bates, Ratrimomanarivo, Harrison and Goodman, 2006 – Racey's Pipistrelle, Racey's Pipistrelle Bat
	Species	Pipistrellus rusticus (Tomes, 1861) – Rusty Pipistrelle, Rustic Pipistrelle, Rusty Bat
	Species	Pipistrellus simandouensis Monadjem, L. R. Richards, Decher and Hutterer in Monadjem, L. R. Richards, Decher, et al., 2020 – Simandou Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus stenopterus (Dobson, 1875) – Narrow-winged Pipistrelle, Malayan Noctule
	Species	Pipistrellus sturdeei Thomas, 1915 – Sturdee's Pipistrelle, Bonin Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus tenuis (Temminck, 1840) – Least Pipistrelle, Indian Pygmy Bat
	Species	Pipistrellus wattsi Kitchener, Caputi and Jones, 1986 – Watts's Pipistrelle
	Species	Pipistrellus westralis Koopman, 1984 – Koopman's Pipistrelle, Northern Pipistrelle, Mangrove Pipistrelle, North-western Pipistrelle, Western Pipistrelle

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Alfred L. Gardner
	Notes:	Curator of North American mammals and Chief of Mammal Section, National Biological Service, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
	Reference for:	Pipistrellus

	Expert:	Don E. Wilson
	Notes:	Smithsonian Institution, MRC 108 Washington DC 20560-0108
	Reference for:	Pipistrellus

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Pipistrellus

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
	Publication Date:	1987
	Article/Chapter Title:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Resource Publication, no. 166
	Page(s):	79
	Publisher:	United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
	Publication Place:	Washington, D.C., USA
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Pipistrellus

	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:	Pipistrellus

	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:	Pipistrellus

	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:	Pipistrellus

Geographic Information


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Comments


	Comment:	Comments: For discussion of synonyms see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), Hill (1976), Menu (1984), and Kitchener et al. (1986). Hill and Harrison (1987) reviewed the genus and recognized seven subgenera (Pipistrellus, Hypsugo, Falsistrellus, Perimyotis, Arielulus, Vespadelus, and Neoromicia), but most of these groups are now recognized as distinct genera. Does not include Hypsugo; see Horácek and Hanák (1985-1986), Tiunov (1986), Menu (1987), Ruedi and Arlettaz (1991), Volleth and Heller (1994), ...

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