Tylonycteris fulvida

(E. Blyth, 1859)

Indomalayan Lesser Bamboo Bat

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Blyth, E. 1859. Report of Curator, Zoological Department, for February to May Meetings, 1859. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 28:271-298.

Original name as described

Scotophilus fulvidus

Other common names

Amber Bamboo Bat

Type material

ZSI 15619, ZSI 15620, ZSI 15621

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

"Schwegyin, Sittang River, Southeast Burma."

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya · Palearctic

Country distribution

India · Bangladesh · China · Myanmar · Andaman and Nicobar Islands · Thailand · Vietnam · Laos · Cambodia · Malaysia · Singapore

Taxonomy notes

split from T. pachypus

Taxonomy notes citation

Tu, V. T., Csorba, G., Ruedi, M., Furey, N. M., Son, N. T., Thong, V. D., ... & Hassanin, A. (2017). Comparative phylogeography of bamboo bats of the genus Tylonycteris (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in Southeast Asia. European Journal of Taxonomy, 274, 1-38.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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