Rhyneptesicus nasutus

(Dobson, 1877)

Sind Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Vespertilionoidea
Family : Vespertilionidae
Subfamily : Vespertilioninae
Tribe : incertae sedis
Genus : Rhyneptesicus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Dobson, G.E. 1877. Notes on a collection of Chiroptera from India and Burma, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 46(3):310-313.

Original name as described

Vesperugo (Vesperus) nasutus

Other common names

Persian Serotine · Sind Serotine

Type material

ZSI 15659

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Shikarpur [east of Rohri], Sind," Pakistan.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic · Palearctic · Indomalaya

Country distribution

Saudi Arabia · Oman · Yemen · United Arab Emirates · Qatar? · Bahrain? · Kuwait? · Iraq · Iran · Afghanistan · Pakistan

Taxonomy notes

moved from Eptesicus to Rhyneptesicus

Taxonomy notes citation

Juste, J., Benda, P., Garcia-Mudarra, J. L., & Ibanez, C. (2013). Phylogeny and systematics of Old World serotine bats (genus Eptesicus, Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera): an integrative approach. Zoologica Scripta, 42(5), 441-457.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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