Phoniscus aerosa (Tomes 1858)

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 : 528

Phoniscus aerosa (Tomes 1858)

[Kerivoula] aerosa Tomes 1858 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858: 333.

Type Locality: "Eastern coast of South Africa." .

Vernacular Names: Dubious Trumpet-eared Bat.

Distribution: Possibly South Africa, but more likely somewhere in SE Asia; known only from two syntypes that may have been incorrectly localized ( Corbet and Hill, 1992).

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Data Deficient as Kerivoula aerosa .

Discussion: See Hill (1965) and Corbet and Hill (1992) for discussion of the uncertain affinties of this species.