Antrozous pallidus
(Le Conte, 1856)
Common Pallid Bat
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Chiroptera |
| Suborder | : Vespertilioniformes |
| Superfamily | : Vespertilionoidea |
| Family | : Vespertilionidae |
| Subfamily | : Vespertilioninae |
| Tribe | : Antrozoini |
| Genus | : Antrozous |
Species status
Authority citation
Le Conte, J.E. 1856. Observations on the North American species of bats. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7:431-438.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1694551Original name as described
Vespertilio pallidus
Other common names
Pallid Bat
Type material
USNM:MAMM:152 (= USNM:MAMM:A1134)
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/34d49b11a-25d9-444d-9a86-8af7830115fbType locality
"California," USA.
Biogeographic realm
Nearctic · Neotropic
Country distribution
Canada · United States · Mexico
Subregion distribution
USA(WA,OR,ID,WY,CA,NV,UT,CO,KS,OK,TX,NM,AZ)
Taxonomy notes
previously included A. koopmani, but that species is here recognized based on the recognition of the species in recent Cuban and bat fossil record literature, but further research is needed to validate this view
Taxonomy notes citation
Mancina, C.A. 2012. Mamíferos. In González Alonso, H., L. Rodríguez Schettino, A. Rodríguez, C.A. Mancina, and I. Ramos García, eds. Libro rojo de los vertebrados de Cuba [Red book of Cuban vertebrates], pp. 268–291. Havana, Cuba: Editorial Academia. · McFarlane, D. A. (1989). Patterns of species co-occurrence in the Antillean bat fauna. Mammalia 53: 59-66. · Orihuela, J., and J.A. Soto-Centeno. 2023. Antrozous koopmani. In: Bats of the West Indies: a natural history and field guide, Kurta and Rodríguez-Durán, eds, pp. 313–315. Cornell University Press. · Orr, R. T., and G. Silva Taboada. 1960. A new species of the bat genus Antrozous from Cuba. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 73:83–86. · Pine, R. H., D. C. Carter, and R. K. LaVal. 1971. Status of Bauerus Van Gelder and Its Relationships to Other Nyctophiline Bats. Journal of Mammalogy 52:663. · Silva Taboada, G. 1976. Historia y actualización taxonómica de algunas especies antillanas de murciélagos de los géneros Pteronotus, Brachyphylla, Lasiurus, y Antrozous (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Poeyana 153:l–24. · Silva Taboada, G. 2009. Actualización taxonómica y distribucional de los murciélagos de Cuba. El Explorador 61:1–4.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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