Tadarida aegyptiaca (E. Geoffroy, 1818)

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 240

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scientific name	Tadarida aegyptiaca (E. Geoffroy, 1818)
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Tadarida aegyptiaca (E. Geoffroy, 1818) View in CoL View at ENA . Descrip, de L'Egypte, 2:128.

TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Giza .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa to Nigeria, Algeria, and Egypt to Yemen and Oman, east to India and Sri Lanka. Records from Saudi Arabia and Oman are by Jennings (1979).

SYNONYMS: anchietae , bocagei , brunneus , geoffroyi , gossei, sindica , talpinus, thomasi , tongaensis, tragota.

COMMENTS: Includes tragata ; see Corbet (1978c:63) and Freeman (1981:165).

References

Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.

Freeman, P. W. 1981. A multivariate study of the family Molossidae (Mammalia: Chiroptera): Morphology, ecology, evolution. Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 7: 1 - 173.

Jennings, M. 1979. A new bat for Saudi Arabia. Journal of the Saudi Arabian Natural History Society, 24: 4.