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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scientific name	Eptesicus fuscus (Beauvois, 1796)
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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).