Lasiurus cinereus (Beauvois, 1796)

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 206-207

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353060

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7290815

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scientific name

Lasiurus cinereus (Beauvois, 1796)
status

 

Lasiurus cinereus (Beauvois, 1796) View in CoL . Cat. Raisonne Mus. Peale Philadelphia, p. 18.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia .

DISTRIBUTION: Colombia and Venezuela to C Chile, Uruguay, and C Argentina; Hawaii ( USA); Guatemala and Mexico throughout the USA to S British Columbia, SE Mackensie, Hudson Bay and S Quebec ( Canada); Galapagos; Bermuda; accidental on Cuba, Hispaniola, Iceland, and the Orkney Isis ( Scotland).

STATUS: U.S. ESA - Endangered as L. c. semotus.

SYNONYMS: brasiliensis , grayi, mexicana , pallescens, pruinosus , semotus, villosissimus .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Lasiurus . Includes villosissimus , and semotus; see Sanborn and Crespo (1957:12), who revised the species. See Shump and Shump (1982b, Mammalian Species, 185).

Sanborn, C. C., and J. A. Crespo. 1957. El Murcielago Blanquizco (Lasiurus cinereus) y sus subspecies. Boletin del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia , 4: 1 - 13.

Shump, K. A., and A. U. Shump. 1982 b. Lasiurus cinereus. Mammalian Species, 185: 1 - 5.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Vespertilionidae

Genus

Lasiurus