Authority citation: Peters, W.C.H. 1871. Eine monographische Übersicht der Chiropterengattungen Nycteris und Atalapha. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1870:900-914.
Authority publication link: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42381873
Original name as described: Atalapha egregia
Nominal names: egregius (W. C. H. Peters, 1871)
Other common names: Giant Red Bat
Taxonomy
Subclass: Theria -- Infraclass: Placentalia -- Order: Chiroptera -- Family: Vespertilionidae -- Subfamily: Vespertilioninae -- Tribe: Lasiurini
Type specimen voucher catalogue number: ZMB 3762
Type locality: Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Country distribution (coarse map shown below; most species exist in only part of countries): Honduras (HND) | Panama (PAN) | Colombia (COL) | Suriname (SUR) | French Guiana (GUF) | Brazil (BRA) | Bolivia (BOL)
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: has been moved from Lasiurus to Aeorestes (previously a synonym of Myotis) by some authors, but this has been a controversial taxonomic opinion within the bat systematics community and the species is retained under Lasiurus here following a recent taxonomic decision published between the MDD and Batnames Database
Citation: Baird, A. B., Braun, J. K., Mares, M. A., Morales, J. C., Patton, J. C., Tran, C. Q., & Bickham, J. W. (2015). Molecular systematic revision of tree bats (Lasiurini): doubling the native mammals of the Hawaiian Islands. Journal of Mammalogy, 96(6), 1255-1274.|Novaes, R. L. M., Garbino, G. S., Claudio, V. C., & Moratelli, R. (2018). Separation of monophyletic groups into distinct genera should consider phenotypic discontinuities: the case of Lasiurini (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Zootaxa, 4379(3), 439-440.|Baird, A. B., Braun, J., Engstrom, M., Lim, B., Mares, M., Patton, J., & Bickham, J. (2021). On the utility of taxonomy to reflect biodiversity: the example of Lasiurini (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Therya, 12(2), 283.|Francis, C. M., Simmons, N. B., Van Cakenberghe, V., Upham, N. S., & Burgin, C. J. (2023). On the taxonomy of Lasiurus. Zenodo, 1-11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7696845
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