Miniopterus schreibersii (Kuhl 1817)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 521

Miniopterus schreibersii (Kuhl 1817)

[Vespertilio] schreibersii Kuhl 1817 , Die Deutschen Fledermause. Hanau: 14.

Type Locality: Romania, Mountains of Banat, Banat, near Coronini, Kolumbacs Cave (= Kulmbazer Cave = Columbäzar Cave).

Vernacular Names: Schreibers's Long-fingered Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Miniopterus schreibersii subsp. schreibersii Kuhl 1817

Subspecies Miniopterus schreibersii subsp. bassanii Cardinal and Christidis 2000

Subspecies Miniopterus schreibersii subsp. blepotis Temminck 1840

Subspecies Miniopterus schreibersii subsp. chinensis Thomas 1908

Subspecies Miniopterus schreibersii subsp. dasythrix Temminck 1840

Subspecies Miniopterus schreibersii subsp. eschscholtzii Waterhouse 1845

Subspecies Miniopterus schreibersii subsp. fuliginosus Hodgson 1835

Subspecies Miniopterus schreibersii subsp. haradai Maeda 1982

Subspecies Miniopterus schreibersii subsp. japoniae Thomas 1905

Subspecies Miniopterus schreibersii subsp. oceanensis Maeda 1982

Subspecies Miniopterus schreibersii subsp. orianae Thomas 1922

Subspecies Miniopterus schreibersii subsp. orsinii Temminck 1840

Subspecies Miniopterus schreibersii subsp. pallidus Thomas 1907

Subspecies Miniopterus schreibersii subsp. parvipes G. M. Allen 1923

Subspecies Miniopterus schreibersii subsp. smitianus Thomas 1927

Subspecies Miniopterus schreibersii subsp. villiersi Aellen 1956

Distribution: S Europe and Morocco through the Caucasus, Iran, and Bulgaria to most of China and Japan; most of Indo-Malayan region; Philippines; New Guinea; Solomon Isls (including Bougainville Isl); Australia; subsaharan Africa; Bismarck Arch.

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

Discussion: Formerly included magnater . Does not include natalensis or arenarius, see Koopman (1994). Does not include majori ; see Peterson et al. (1995). Reviewed by Crucitti (1976); see also Maeda (1982), Hill (1983), Harrison and Bates (1991), Kock (1996), Bates and Harrison (1997), Cardinal and Christidis (2000), Conole (2000), Horácek et al. (2000), and Hendrichsen et al. (2001 b). Subspecies boundaries are not always clear (e.g., see Hill [1983] and Yoshiyuki [1989]), and some populations have not been allocated to subspecies. Sometimes misspelled schriebersi, but see Bogdanowicz and Kick (1998) for correct spelling ( schreibersii ). This complex probably includes more than one species.