Histiotus colombiae

O. Thomas, 1916

Colombian Big-eared Brown Bat

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1916-03-01. Notes on bats of the genus Histiotus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)17(99):272-276.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15612444

Original name as described

Histiotus colombiae

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1899.11.4.1

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/9e498075-7e2a-40c0-859e-3f7fa1ca2661

Type locality

“Choachi, near Bogota,” Cundinamarca, Colombia.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Colombia · Venezuela

Taxonomy notes

split from H. montanus

Taxonomy notes citation

Rodríguez-Posada, M. E., Morales-Martínez, D. M., Ramírez-Chaves, H. E., Martínez-Medina, D., & Calderón-Acevedo, C. A. (2021). A new species of Long-eared Brown Bat of the genus Histiotus (Chiroptera) and the revalidation of Histiotus colombiae. Caldasia, 43(2).

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006539

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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.

Histiotus colombiae

O. Thomas, 1916

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

colombiae

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1899.11.4.1

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/9e498075-7e2a-40c0-859e-3f7fa1ca2661

Authority page

274

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15612444

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Cláudio, Novaes, Gardner, Nogueira, Wilson, Maldonado, Oliveira & Moratelli (2023:16) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/62645)
  2. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006539) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)

H. m. colombiae

Koopman, 1994

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

colombiae

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

122

Authority publication

Berlin

Name usages

  1. Koopman (1994:122) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
  2. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  3. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:842) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)

Eptesicus (Histiotus) colombiae

(Yi Xueling, Latch, B. K. Lim, Koroiva, Da Rocha, & Feijó, 2024)

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

colombiae

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

419

Authority publication

Mammalian Biology

Name usages

Yi, Latch, Lim, Koroiva, Da Rocha & Feijó (2024:419) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68367)

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