Tadarida latouchei

O. Thomas, 1920

La Touche's Free-tailed Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Vespertilionoidea
Family : Molossidae
Subfamily : Molossinae
Genus : Tadarida

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1920-03-01. Two new Asiatic bats of the genera Tadarida and Dyacopterus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)5(27):283-285.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18637052

Original name as described

Tadarida latouchei

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1919.12.22.2

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/1df9828e-8fc3-46f1-920b-beece225a4db

Type locality

"Chin-wang-tao, N.E. Chihli, China."

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya · Palearctic

Country distribution

China · Laos · Thailand · Vietnam

IUCN Red List status

Endangered

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005265

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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.

Tadarida latouchei

O. Thomas, 1920

Family

Molossidae

Root name

latouchei

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1919.12.22.2

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/1df9828e-8fc3-46f1-920b-beece225a4db

Authority page

283

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18637052

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  2. Smith & Xie (2008:353) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #40036) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #40036) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  5. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:667) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005265) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  7. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/40036/22060323) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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