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.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3546885 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3546891

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 specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1997-1824

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

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004647

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Lavia frons affinis

Andersen & Wroughton, 1907

Family

Megadermatidae

Root name

affinis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1901.8.8.3

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

140

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24254600

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  2. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:190) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)

Megaderma frons

(É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810)

Family

Megadermatidae

Root name

frons

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MNHN-ZM-MO-1997-1824

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1997-1824

Authority page

192, 198

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3546885 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3546891

Authority publication

Annales du Muséum d'histoire naturelle

Name usages

  1. Lesson (1827:83, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207551) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
  2. Lesson (1842:33) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  3. Smith (1842:129) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67141)
  4. Matschie (1895:19, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14835393) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67260)

Lavia rex

G. S. Miller, 1905

Family

Megadermatidae

Root name

rex

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:18993 (= USNM:MAMM:A38197)

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/345c52130-f584-4a9e-bee0-8551f703d844

Authority page

227

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2265697

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Lavia frons

Corbet & J. Edwards Hill, 1980

Family

Megadermatidae

Root name

frons

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

47

Authority publication

London

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:47) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:135) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  4. Happold & Happold (2013:406) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #11378) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #11378) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  7. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:190) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004647) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  9. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/11378/22102877) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Lavia frons frons

Simmons, 2005

Family

Megadermatidae

Root name

frons

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Lavia frons rex

Simmons, 2005

Family

Megadermatidae

Root name

rex

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

  1. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  2. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:190) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)

Vespertilio megalotis

(Bechstein, 1799)

Family

Megadermatidae

Root name

megalotis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

622

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57833487

Authority publication

Weimar

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