Lasiurus Gray, 1831

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 206

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Lasiurus Gray, 1831 View in CoL View at ENA . Zool. Mise., 1:38.

TYPE SPECIES: Vespertilio borealis Müller, 1776 View in CoL .

SYNONYMS: Dasypterus ; Nycteris Borkhausen, 1797 (not Cuvier and Geoffroy, 1795).

COMMENTS: Treated under the name Nycteris by Hall (1981:219). In Opinion 111 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1929b), Lasiurus was adopted, rather than Nycteris . Includes Dasypterus ; see Hall and Jones (1961). A key to this genus was presented by Shump and Shump (1982a).

References

Hall, E. R., and J. K. Jones, Jr. 1961. North American yellow bats, Dasypterus , and a list of the named kinds of the genus Lasiurus Gray. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 14: 73 - 98.

Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1929 b. Opinion 111. Suspension of Rules for Nycteris 1795. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 73 (6): 416.

Shump, K. A., and A. U. Shump. 1982 a. Lasiurus borealis. Mammalian Species, 183: 1 - 6.