Scotophilus borbonicus (E. Geoffroy, 1803)

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 226-227

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scientific name	Scotophilus borbonicus (E. Geoffroy, 1803)
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Scotophilus borbonicus (E. Geoffroy, 1803) View in CoL . Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 8:201.

TYPE LOCALITY: Reunion Isl ( France) .

DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar, Reunion Isl (Mascarene Isis). Records from Mauritius (Mascarene Isis) are erroneous, see Cheke and Dahl (1981).

STATUS: May be extinct; see Cheke and Dahl (1981:217).

COMMENTS: Included equivocally in leucogaster by Hayman and Hill (1971:50-51); but see Koopman (1975:414-416). Hill (1980b) considered African viridis and damarensis , and possibly leucogaster to be conspecific with borbonicus , but C. B. Robbins et al. (1985) rejected any affinity with African mainland species. Also see comment under leucogaster . Koopman (1986), included viridis , damarensis , and nigritellus (but not leucogaster ) in this species.

References

Cheke, A. S., and A. F. Dahl. 1981. The status of bats on western Indian Ocean Islands, with special reference to Pteropus. Mammalia, 45: 205 - 238.

Hayman, R. W., and J. E. Hill. 1971. Order Chiroptera. Part 2. Pp. 1 - 73, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 15 Jul 1971]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.

Hill, J. E. 1980 b. The status of Vespertilio borbonicus E. Geoffroy, 1803 (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Zoologische Mededelingen, 55: 287 - 295.

Koopman, K. F. 1975. Bats of the Sudan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 154: 353 - 444.

Koopman, K. F. 1986. Sudan bats revisited: An update of Bats of the Sudan . Cimbebasia, ser. A. 8 (2): 9 - 13.