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
Authority citation
Ann. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 20, 265
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3553704Original name as described
Rhinolophus tridens
Other common names
Geoffroy's Trident Bat
Type material
MNHN-ZM-MO-1986-1068
Type kind
lectotype
Type specimen URI
http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1986-1068Type 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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