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Eptesicus serotinus  (Schreber, 1774)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 631969

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): serotine [English]
  
    Common Serotine [English]
  
    Eurasian Serotine [English]
  
    Big Brown Bat [English]
  
    Silky 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  
                                              TribeEptesicini Volleth and Heller, 1994 – serotines  
                                                 GenusEptesicus Rafinesque, 1820 – big brown bats  
                                                    SubgenusEptesicus (Cnephaeus) Kaup, 1829  
                                                       SpeciesEptesicus serotinus (Schreber, 1774) – serotine, Common Serotine, Eurasian Serotine, Big Brown Bat, Silky Bat  
    Direct Children:  
                                                          Subspecies Eptesicus serotinus mirza de Filippi, 1865  
                                                          Subspecies Eptesicus serotinus serotinus (Schreber, 1774)  
                                                          Subspecies Eptesicus serotinus turcomanus (Eversmann, 1840)  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Don E. Wilson  
  Notes: Smithsonian Institution, MRC 108 Washington DC 20560-0108   
  Reference for: Eptesicus serotinus    
       
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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: Eptesicus serotinus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Hoofer, Steven R., Ronald A. Van Den Bussche, and Ivan Horácek  
  Publication Date: 2006   
  Article/Chapter Title: Generic status of the American Pipistrelles (Vespertilionidae) with description of a new genus   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 87, no. 5   
  Page(s): 981-992   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0022-2372   
  Notes: Available online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/4094268   
  Reference for: Eptesicus serotinus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Juste, Javier, Petr Benda, Juan Luis Garcia-Mudarra, and Carlos Ibáñez  
  Publication Date: 2013   
  Article/Chapter Title: Phylogeny and systematics of Old World serotine bats (genus Eptesicus, Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera): an integrative approach   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zoologica Scripta, vol. 42, no. 5   
  Page(s): 441-457   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1463-6409   
  Notes: doi: 10.1111/zsc.12020   
  Reference for: Eptesicus serotinus   
       
  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: Eptesicus serotinus, Common Serotine [English]   
       
  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: Eptesicus serotinus, Eurasian Serotine [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: Eptesicus serotinus   
       
  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: Eptesicus serotinus, serotine [English]   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China)  
    Africa  
    Southern Asia  
       
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 Comments
       
  Comment: Status: IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) - Lower Risk (lc)  
    Comments: Subgenus Eptesicus. Revised by Gaisler (1970), who noted that shiraziensis may be synonymous with turcomanicus. Includes sodalis; see Gaisler (1970) and Corbet (1978c). Includes horikawai; see Jones (1975). See additional comments under fuscus and platyops. Reviewed in part by Harrison and Bates (1991), Bates and Harrison (1997), Horácek et al. (2000), and Baagøe (2001c)  
 

 

    

 
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