Scotophilus kuhlii

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 766 meters (0 to 2,513 feet).[1]

Ecology: This adaptable species is found in primary and secondary habitats , and in both rural and urban areas. It roosts in temples, caves, hollow trees , palm fronds, roofs, crevices, cracks and holes in the walls and on the roofs of old houses, dry leaves of trees in colonies of several hundred individuals. It is an early flyer and prefers to feed on hymenopterans and dipterans. One or two young ones are born after a gestation period of 105-115 days (Bates and Harrison 1997). [2].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     8     Desert   
  
•     8.1     Desert - Hot   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Scotophilus fulvus • Scotophilus kuhlii ssp. wroughtoni • Scotophilus temmincki ssp. wroughtoni • Scotophilus wroughtoni

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 08-Jun-2004

Earlier included under Scotophilus heathii Horsfield, 1831 (Tate 1942, Ellerman and Morrison-Scott 1951), the taxon kuhlii Leach, 1821, is now considered distinct species (Hill in Peterson 1968, Hill and Thonglongya 1972, Corbet and Hill 1992, Koopman 1993, Bates and Harrison 1997, Simmons 2005). The taxon wroughtoni Thomas, 1897, earlier considered to be a subspecies (Bates and Harrison 1997), is now synonymized with this taxon (Simmons 2005) (Srinivasulu et al. in press ). Scotophilus kuhlii might represent a complex of several similar species. Further studies are needed to clarify the taxonomic status of populations currently allocated to this species.[2].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Scotophilus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 15 species and subspecies in this genus:

S. borbonicus (House Bats) · S. celebensis (Sulawesi Yellow House Bat) · S. collinus (Sody's Yellow House Bat) · S. dinganii (African Yellow House Bat) · S. heathi (Greater Asiatic Yellow Bat) · S. heathii (Greater Asiatic Yellow House Bat) · S. kuhlii (Lesser Asiatic Yellow House Bat) · S. leucogaster (White-Bellied Yellow Bat) · S. marovaza (Marovaza House Bat) · S. nigrita (Greater Brown Bat) · S. nucella (Robbin's House Bat) · S. nux (Nut-Colored Yellow Bat) · S. robustus (Robust Yellow Bat) · S. tandrefana (Western Yellow Bat) · S. viridis (Lesser Yellow House Bat)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the collection of mammals in the Field Columbian Museum. 1907 8 Chicago: Field Columbian Museum, 1907. url p. 515, p. 651.
• A history of British mammals / London: Gurney and Jackson, 1910-[1921]. url , .
• A key to the bats of the Philippine Islands / Nina R. Ingle, Lawrence R. Heaney. 69 1992 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1992. url fig. 58-60 , p. 20, p. 44, p. iii.
• A synopsis of the mammalian fauna of the Philippine Islands / Lawrence R. Heaney. .. [et al.]. 88 1998 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1998. url p. 29.
• Breviora. 2002 Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, [1952- url p. 11.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 111.
• Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. New YorkAmerican Museum of Natural History1881- url p. 485.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 174, p. 19, p. 192, p. 203, p. 270, p. 299, p. 300.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 83 1939 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 92, p. 99.
• Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the British Museum. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1878. url .
• Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946 / by J.R. Ellerman and T.C.S. Morrison-Scott. London: BM(NH), 1951. url p. 178.
• Collected writings on mammals. [v.p.]1870-1908. url p. 485.
• Mammalia, by W. T. Blanford, F. R. S. London: Taylor and Francis, 1888-91. url p. 320.
• Mammalian diversity on Mount Isarog: a threatened center of endemism on southern Luzon Island, Philippines / Lawrence R. Heaney. .. [et al.]. 95 1999 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1999. url p. 61.
• Mammals of the Kelley-Roosevelts and Delacour Asiatic expedition, by Wilfred H. Osgood. 18 1932 Chicago, 1932. url p. 229.
• North American fauna. Washington: Fish and Wildlife Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off. url p. 627, p. 808.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 278, p. 406, p. 408, p. 456, p. 458, p. 465.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 7 1867 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url fig. 23 , p. 27.
• Supplement to Chasen (1940) A Handlist of Malaysian Mammals: containing a generic synonymy and a complete index / By J.R. Ellerman & T.C.S. Morrison-Scott. London: BM(NH), 1955. url p. 14.
• The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay: The Society, url p. 275, p. 724.
• The Philippine journal of science. Manila: Bureau of Science url p. 18.
• The distribution and ecology of mammals on Leyte, Biliran and Maripipi Islands, Philippines / Eric A. Rickart. .. [et al.]. 72 1993 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1993. url table 14 , p. 43.
• The mammals of China and Mongolia / by Glover M. Allen. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1938-1940. url , p. 252, p. 253.

Notes

Contributors

• Bates, P., Kingston, T., Francis, C., Rosell-Ambal, G., Heaney, L., Gonzales, J.-C., Molur, S. & Srinivasulu, C. 2008. Scotophilus kuhlii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 30, 2012.
• Chiroptera Specialist Group 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Chiroptera Specialist Group 1996. Scotophilus kuhlii. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 7 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• Burke Museum: Mammal Specimens
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum of Texas Tech University (TTU): Mammal specimens
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• National Chemical Laboratory: IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• Royal Ontario Museum: Mammal specimens
• University of Alaska Museum of the North: University of New Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology Mammal Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 105247
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-632151
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 632151
• IUCN ID: 241550
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 9046

Footnotes

1. Mean = 89.420 meters (293.373 feet), Standard Deviation = 403.490 based on 38 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Bates, P., Kingston, T., Francis, C., Rosell-Ambal, G., Heaney, L., Gonzales, J.-C., Molur, S. & Srinivasulu, C. 2008. Scotophilus kuhlii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]

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