Asellia tridens

(É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1813)

Geoffroy's Trident Leaf-nosed Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Pteropodiformes
Superfamily : Rhinolophoidea
Family : Hipposideridae
Genus : Asellia

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Ann. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 20, 265

Original name as described

Rhinolophus tridens

Other common names

Geoffroy's Trident Bat

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1986-1068

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

near Luxor, Egypt.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic · Palearctic

Country distribution

Senegal · Gambia · Mauritania · Mali · Morocco · Burkina Faso · Algeria · Tunisia · Niger · Libya · Chad · Sudan · South Sudan · Ethiopia · Somalia · Eritrea · Djibouti · Egypt · Israel · Palestine · Jordan · Lebanon? · Saudi Arabia · Oman · Yemen · United Arab Emirates? · Qatar? · Kuwait? · Iraq · Syria · Iran · Afghanistan · Pakistan

Taxonomy notes

previously included A. italosomalica

Taxonomy notes citation

Benda, P., Vallo, P., & Reiter, A. (2011). Taxonomic revision of the genus Asellia (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) with a description of a new species from southern Arabia. Acta Chiropterologica, 13(2), 245-270.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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