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Genus of bats

Vespertilio
Parti-coloured bat, Vespertilio murinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Vespertilio
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Vespertilio murinus
Linnaeus, 1758

Vespertilio is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae. The common name for this family is vesper bats, which is a better-known classification than Vespertilio. They are also known as frosted bats.

Species within the genus Vespertilio are:

History

Vespertilio is the oldest accepted genus name for bats. When Vespertilio was described in 1758, it was equivalent to the modern taxonomic order, encompassing all of Chiroptera (all bats), which Carl Linnaeus grouped with the primates due to certain characteristics mentioned by Linnaeus that bats seemed to share with actual primates. The second chiropteran genus, Pteropus, was described four years later in 1762. Vespertilio, as the oldest genus name, is thus the type genus of the family Vespertilionidae, which was not described until 1821. Variably, until 1779, Vespertilio was considered either the only chiropteran genus, or one of two, including Pteropus. It was considered by some to be the only genus of bats until as late as 1817.

References

  1. Hutcheon, James M.; Kirsch, John A. W. (2006). "A moveable face: Deconstructing the Microchiroptera and a new classification of extant bats". Acta Chiropterologica. 8: 1–10. doi:10.3161/1733-5329(2006)8[1:AMFDTM]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1733-5329.
  2. Miller Jr., Gerrit S. (1907). "The Families and Genera of Bats". United States National Museum Bulletin. 57: 3.
  • D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2005: Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third Edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.
Species of subfamily Vespertilioninae
Aeorestes
AfronycterisHeller's serotine (A. helios)
Antrozous
  • Pallid bat (A. pallidus)
  • Arielulus
    Barbastella
    Bauerus
    Chalinolobus
    Corynorhinus
    Dasypterus
    Eptesicus
    Euderma
    Eudiscopus
    Falsistrellus
    Glauconycteris
    Glischropus
    Hesperoptenus
    Histiotus
    Hypsugo
    Ia
    Idionycteris
    Laephotis
    Lasionycteris
    Lasiurus
    Mimetillus
    Neoromicia
    Niumbaha
    Nyctalus
    Nycticeinops
    Nycticeius
    Nyctophilus
    Otonycteris
    Parastrellus
    Perimyotis
    Pharotis
    Philetor
    Pipistrellus
    Plecotus
    Rhogeessa
    Scoteanax
    Scotoecus
    Scotomanes
    Scotophilus
    Scotorepens
    Scotozous
    Tylonycteris
    Vespadelus
    Vespertilio
    Taxon identifiers
    Vespertilio


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