Kerivoula phalaena

O. Thomas, 1912

Spurrell's Woolly Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Vespertilionoidea
Family : Vespertilionidae
Subfamily : Kerivoulinae
Genus : Kerivoula

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1912-09-01. Two new West-African mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)10(57):280-282.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15618486

Original name as described

Kerivoula phalaena

Other common names

Spurell's Trumpet-eared Bat

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1912.6.20.3

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/80d2fdbf-cdc8-40e6-9b00-06fbbb01effb

Type locality

"Bibianaha [= Bibiani], inland of Denkwa, Gold Coast [= Western province, Ghana]. Alt. 720' [= 219 m]."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Guinea · Liberia · Cote d'Ivoire · Ghana · Cameroon · Gabon · Republic of the Congo · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Uganda

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005304

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.

Kerivoula phalaena

O. Thomas, 1912

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

phalaena

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1912.6.20.3

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/80d2fdbf-cdc8-40e6-9b00-06fbbb01effb

Authority page

281

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15618486

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Eisentraut (1963:98) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68788)
  2. Corbet & Hill (1980:76) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  3. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:179) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  4. Corbet & Hill (1991:85) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  5. Koopman (1993:198) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69007)
  6. Koopman (1994:98) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
  7. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  8. Monadjem, Schoeman, Reside, Pio, Stoffberg, Bayliss, Cotterill, Curran, Kopp & Taylor (2010:383) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/1775)
  9. Happold & Happold (2013:731) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  10. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #10984) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  11. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #10984) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  12. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:903) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  13. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005304) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  14. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/10984/22021608) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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