Nycteris thebaica

É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1813

Egyptian Slit-faced Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Emballonuroidea
Family : Nycteridae
Genus : Nycteris

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Annales du Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris 20: 20

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3553449

Original name as described

Nycteris Thebaicus

Other common names

Cape Long-eared Bat · Cape Slit-faced Bat · Common Slit-faced Bat · Geoffroy's Nycteris

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1997-1800 (= MNHN ? 889)

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1997-1800

Type locality

Thebes, Egypt.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic · Palearctic

Country distribution

Morocco · Libya · Lebanon? · Israel · Palestine · Jordan · Saudi Arabia · Yemen · Egypt · Mauritania? · Senegal · Gambia · Guinea-Bissau · Guinea · Sierra Leone · Liberia? · Cote d'Ivoire · Mali · Burkina Faso · Ghana · Togo · Benin · Niger · Nigeria · Chad · Cameroon · Central African Republic · Republic of the Congo · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Sudan · Eritrea · Djibouti · Ethiopia · Somalia · Kenya · Uganda · Rwanda · Burundi · Tanzania · Angola · Zambia · Malawi · Mozambique · Zimbabwe · Namibia · Botswana · South Sudan · Eswatini · Lesotho?

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004845

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.

Nycteris damarensis

W. C. H. Peters, 1871

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

damarensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1838.2.8.4, ZMB 3298, ZMB 3887, NHRM (no number given)

Type kind

syntypes

Authority page

905

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42381866

Authority publication

Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin

Name usages

Peters (1871:905, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42381866) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67090)

Nycteris fuliginosa

W. C. H. Peters, 1851

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

fuliginosa

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1858.6.8.15, BMNH:Mamm:1907.1.1.337, RMNH.MAM.35901.a, RMNH.MAM.35901.b, ZMB 392, ZMB 562, ZMB 3954

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.35901.a https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.35901.b https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/49a5b308-323e-4741-8198-e882c54cbfa4

Authority page

758

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11056772

Authority publication

Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin

Name usages

  1. Peters (1871:906, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42381867) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67090)
  2. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Nycteris Capensis

A. Smith, 1829

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

capensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1863.2.21.6, RMNH.MAM.35900

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.35900 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/dd23809b-1b6f-477a-967d-0319a0607f39

Authority page

434

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2310843

Authority publication

Zoological Journal

Name usages

  1. Lesson (1842:33) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  2. Peters (1871:904, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42381865) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67090)
  3. Thomas (1898:927, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30988166) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35378)
  4. Roberts (1913:66, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50439524) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/17656)

Nycteris angolensis

W. C. H. Peters, 1871

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

angolensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1879.1.21.2, ZMB 3633, ZMB 3637

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/49ef4499-66dd-4ef7-accb-3cdc85deb67c https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/e22bc10a-c53d-49f3-97bd-ce55910868c4

Authority page

903

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42381864

Authority publication

Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin

Name usages

Peters (1871:903, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42381864) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67090)

Petalia thebaica adana

(Andersen, 1912)

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

adana

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1899.11.6.18

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/c5023274-962b-4f17-9969-861a1bfc9a8a

Authority page

548

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18640619

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Petalia damarensis brockmani

(Andersen, 1912)

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

brockmani

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1910.3.27.4

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/e7e07ce1-13a1-4bad-8a2e-5f36a1dcb3cd

Authority page

548

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18640619

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Petalia damarensis media

(Andersen, 1912)

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

media

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1912.2.28.1

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/8a693785-5668-4e5a-a0d1-0ecab5154be1

Authority page

548

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18640619

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

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

Petalia (Nycteris) thebaica aurantiaca

(De Beaux, 1923)

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

aurantiaca

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

lost (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

91

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57811164

Authority publication

Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano

Name usages

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

Nycteris Revoilii

Robin, 1881

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

revoilii

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MNHN-ZM-MO-1881-4

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1881-4

Authority page

90

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31660696

Authority publication

Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris

Name usages

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

Nycteris Thebaicus

É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1813

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

thebaica

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MNHN-ZM-MO-1997-1800 (= MNHN ? 889)

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1997-1800

Authority page

20

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3553449

Authority publication

Annales du Muséum d'histoire naturelle

Name usages

Lesson (1842:33) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)

Nycteris labiata

von Heuglin, 1861

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

labiata

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

RMNH.MAM.27231.a, RMNH.MAM.27231.b, SMNS 980a, SMNS 980b, ZMB 2794

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.27231.a https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.27231.b

Authority page

5

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45613521

Authority publication

Nova Acta Academiae Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum

Nycteris thebaica najdiya

Nader & Kock, 1982

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

najdiya

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

SMF:MAMM:60195

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

9-15

Authority publication

Senckenbergiana biologica

Name usages

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

Nycteris Geoffroyi

A. G. Desmarest, 1821

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

geoffroyi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

127

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39523891

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

  1. Lesson (1827:84, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207552) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
  2. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Nycteris thebaica

W. C. H. Peters, 1871

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

thebaica

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

903

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42381864

Authority publication

Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin

Name usages

  1. Peters (1871:903, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42381864) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67090)
  2. Matschie (1895:18, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14835392) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67260)
  3. Corbet & Hill (1980:47) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  4. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:135) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  5. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  6. Monadjem, Schoeman, Reside, Pio, Stoffberg, Bayliss, Cotterill, Curran, Kopp & Taylor (2010:382) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/1775)
  7. Happold & Happold (2013:457) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #14936) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  9. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #14936) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  10. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:386) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  11. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004845) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  12. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/14936/22014183) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Nycteris capensis damarensis

A. Roberts, 1913

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

damarensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

101

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50439559

Authority publication

Annals of the Transvaal Museum

Name usages

Roberts (1913:101, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50439559) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/17656)

Nicteris thebaica

R. Zimara, 1935

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

thebaica

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

14

Authority publication

Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Name usages

Zimara (1935:14) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67232)

Nycteris thebaica adana

Simmons, 2005

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

adana

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

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

Nycteris thebaica angolensis

Simmons, 2005

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

angolensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

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

Nycteris thebaica brockmani

Simmons, 2005

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

brockmani

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

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

Nycteris thebaica capensis

Simmons, 2005

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

capensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

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

Nycteris thebaica damarensis

Simmons, 2005

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

damarensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

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

Nycteris thebaica labiata

Simmons, 2005

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

labiata

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

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

Nycteris thebaica thebaica

Simmons, 2005

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

thebaica

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

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

Nycteris affinis

A. Smith, 1829

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

affinis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

434

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2310843

Authority publication

Zoological Journal

Name usages

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

nycteris Thebaïus

Lesson, 1836

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

thebaius

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

153

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/62814686

Authority publication

Paris

Nycteris albiventer

J. A. Wagner, 1840

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

albiventris

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

439

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31072078

Authority publication

Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur

Name usages

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

Nycteris discolor

J. A. Wagner, 1840

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

discolor

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

440

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31072079

Authority publication

Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur

Name usages

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

Nycteris Geoffroyi var. Senegalensis

Hartmann, 1868

Family

Nycteridae

Root name

senegalensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

44

Authority publication

Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde

Name usages

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

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