Nycteris thebaica E. Geoffroy 1818

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Nycteridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 391-394 : 393

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scientific name	Nycteris thebaica E. Geoffroy 1818
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Nycteris thebaica E. Geoffroy 1818 , Descrip. de L'Egypte, Vol. 2: 119.

Type Locality: Egypt, Thebes (near Luxor).

Vernacular Names: Egyptian Slit-faced Bat.

Synonyms: Nycteris aethiopicus Heuglin and Fitzinger 1866 .

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Nycteris thebaica subsp. thebaica E. Geoffroy 1818

Subspecies Nycteris thebaica subsp. adana K. Anderen 1912

Subspecies Nycteris thebaica subsp. angolensis Peters 1870

Subspecies Nycteris thebaica subsp. brockmani K. Andersen 1912

Subspecies Nycteris thebaica subsp. capensis A. Smith 1829

Subspecies Nycteris thebaica subsp. damarensis Peters 1870

Subspecies Nycteris thebaica subsp. labiata Heuglin 1861

Subspecies Nycteris thebaica subsp. najdiya Nader and Kock 1982

Distribution: Central Arabia, Israel, Sinai, Egypt, Morocco, Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, Djibouti, and Kenya, south to South Africa in open country; Zanzibar and Pemba.

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

Discussion: thebaica species group. Reviewed by Van Cakenberghe and De Vree (1998). The status of brockmani and damarensis remains unclear; these forms may represent distinct species, see discussion in Van Cakenberghe and De Vree (1998). Also see Harrison and Bates (1991) and Gray et al. (1999).