Scotophilus robustus Milne-Edwards, 1881

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 228

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scientific name	Scotophilus robustus Milne-Edwards, 1881
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Scotophilus robustus Milne-Edwards, 1881 View in CoL View at ENA . C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 91:1035.

TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar .

DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar.

COMMENTS: Recognized as a subspecies of nigrita (when nigrita was used for the species now called dinganii ) by Hayman and Hill (1971:50). However, C. B. Robbins et al. (1985) considered it specifically distinct from dinganii and borbonicus .

References

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.