Lasiurus borealis borealis

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,044 meters (0 to 6,706 feet).[1]

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Lasiurus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 21 species and subspecies in this genus:

L. blossevillii (Western Red Bat) · L. borealis (Eastern Red Bat;red Bat) · L. borealis blossevillii (Eastern Red Bat) · L. borealis minor (Small Hairy-Tailed Bat) · L. brachyotis (Galapagos Bat) · L. castaneus (Tacarcunan Bat) · L. cinereus (Hawaiian Hoary Bat) · L. cinereus cinereus (Hoary Bat) · L. cinereus semotus (Hawaiian Hoary Bat) · L. degelidus (Jamaican Red Bat) · L. ega (Southern Yellow Bat) · L. egregius (Big Red Bat) · L. insularis (Cuban Yellow Bat) · L. intermedius (Northern Yellow Bat;eastern Yellow Bat) · L. intermedius intermedius (Northern Yellow Bat) · L. minor (Little Red Bat) · L. pfeifferi (Pfeiffer's Red Bat) · L. seminolus (Seminole Bat) · L. seminolus seminolus (Seminole Bat) · L. varius (Cinnamon Red Bat) · L. xanthinus (Western Yellow Bat)

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Further Reading

• Advances in herpetology and evolutionary biology: essays in honor of Ernest E. Williams / Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1983. url p. 413, p. 725.
• Annual report of the Regents / Albany: J.B. Lyon, State Printer, 1890-1903. url p. 75.
• Bulletin - New York State Museum. Albany: New York State Education Dept. url p. 75.
• Fieldbook of Illinois mammals / Donald F. Hoffmeister, Carl O. Mohr. Urbana: Natural History Survey Division, 1957. url p. 82, p. 82.
• Handbook of mammals of Kansas / by E. Raymond Hall. 1955 Lawrence, Kansas: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1955. url descr. of fig. 7, page 26, p. 45.
• Key to the land mammals of northeastern North America, Albany, University of the State of New York, 1900. url .
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. 1967 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1946-1996. url p. 17, p. 55.
• Monograph of the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kan.: The Museum. url p. 407, p. 71.
• North American fauna. Washington: Fish and Wildlife Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off. url , p. 54, p. 55.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 132, p. 202.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 472, p. 603.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. 75 1961 Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 183, p. 197, p. 228, p. 232, p. 728.
• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. 16 1964 Lawrence, University of Kansas. url p. 100, p. 184, p. 277, p. 388, p. 389, p. 411, p. 510, p. 529, fig. 11, page 533, p. 55, fig. 17, page 75, p. 76, fig. 15, page 94, p. 95.
• Zoologica; scientific contributions of the New York Zoological Society. New York. url p. 220.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed April 21, 2007.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 07, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 7 providers.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 6594779
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 643553

Footnotes

1. Mean = 264.280 meters (867.060 feet), Standard Deviation = 172.050 based on 440 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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