Lavia frons

(É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810)

Yellow-winged False-vampire

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. 1810. Sur les phyllostomes et les mégadermes, deux genres de la famille des chauve-souris. Annales du Muséum d'histoire naturelle 15:157-198.

Original name as described

Megaderma frons

Other common names

African Yellow-winged Bat · Yellow-winged Bat

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1997-1824

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Sénégal."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Senegal · Gambia · Guinea-Bissau · Guinea · Sierra Leone · Mali · Cote d'Ivoire · Burkina Faso · Ghana · Togo · Benin · Niger · Nigeria · Cameroon · Chad · Central African Republic · Gabon · Republic of the Congo · Democratic Republic of the Congo · South Sudan · Sudan · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Uganda · Kenya · Somalia · Rwanda · Burundi · Tanzania · Zambia

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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