Authority citation: Allen, J.A. 1914-07-09. New South American bats and a new octodont. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33(29):381-389.
Authority publication link: https://hdl.handle.net/2246/1820
Original name as described: Eptesicus andinus
Nominal names: andinus (J. A. Allen, 1914) | montosus (O. Thomas, 1920) | chiralensis (H. E. Anthony, 1926)
Other common names: Andean Brown Bat
Taxonomy
Subclass: Theria -- Infraclass: Placentalia -- Order: Chiroptera -- Family: Vespertilionidae -- Subfamily: Vespertilioninae -- Tribe: Eptesicini
Type specimen voucher catalogue number: AMNH M-33807
Type locality: "Valle de las Papas (alt. 10,000 ft. [= 3048 m]), Central Andes, Huila, Colombia."
Country distribution (coarse map shown below; most species exist in only part of countries): Venezuela (VEN) | Colombia (COL) | Ecuador (ECU) | Peru (PER) | Bolivia (BOL) | Brazil (BRA) | Guyana?
Species Status: This species is currently living, it lives in wild habitats, its taxonomic status is currently accepted, and it is listed in MSW3 2005.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status:
Species-specific notes: moved from Eptesicus to the recently described Neoeptesicus
Citation: Cláudio, V. C., Novaes, R. L., Gardner, A. L., Nogueira, M. R., Wilson, D. E., Maldonado, J. E., ... & Moratelli, R. (2023). Taxonomic re-evaluation of New World Eptesicus and Histiotus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), with the description of a new genus. Zoologia (Curitiba), 40, e22029.
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