Eptesicus fuscus (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 : 201-202

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Eptesicus fuscus (Beauvois, 1796) View in CoL View at ENA . Cat. Raisonne Mus. Peale Philadelphia, p. 18.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia .

DISTRIBUTION: S Canada to Colombia and N Brazil; Greater Antilles; Bahamas; Dominica and Barbados (Lesser Antilles); perhaps Alaska.

SYNONYMS: arquatus, bahamensis , bernardinus, carolinensis, cubensis, dutertreus , hispaniolae , lynni , melanops ; melanopterus Rehn ; miradorensis , osceola, pallidus , peninsulae, pelliceus, petersoni , phaiops, ursinus , wetmorei .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Eptesicus . Closely similar to serotinus with which it may be conspecific. Includes lynni , see Koopman (1989c). See Kurta and Baker (1990, Mammalian Species, 356).

Koopman, K. F. 1989 c. A review and analysis of the bats of the West Indies. Pp. 635 - 644, in Biogeography of the West Indies: Past, present, and future (C. A. Woods, ed.). Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL, 878 pp.

Kurta, A., and R. H. Baker. 1990. Eptesicus fuscus. Mammalian Species, 356: 1 - 10.