Asellia tridens

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• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,815 meters (0 to 5,955 feet).[1]

Ecology: This is a gregarious and colonial species which occurs in crevices or in cliffs in arid and semi-desert habitats . It roosts in temples, caves, mines, open-wells, underground irrigation tunnels and old tombs and buildings. Forages over desert and semi-desert vegetation zones, mainly in oases. Forages by slow hawking, has been observed foraging around palm trees and buildings, and over water.[2].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     7     Caves and Subterranean Habitats (non-aquatic)   
  
•     7.1     Caves and Subterranean Habitats (non-aquatic) - Caves   
  
•     8     Desert   
  
•     8.1     Desert - Hot   
  
•     8.2     Desert - Temperate   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 08-Jun-2004

Simmons (2005) lists three subspecies : Asellia tridens diluta Anderson, 1881; A. t. italosomalica De Beauz, 1931; and A. t. murraiana Anderson, 1881.[2].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Asellia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. patrizii (Patrizi's Trident Leaf-Nosed Bat) · A. tridens (Geoffroy's Trident Leaf-Nosed Bat) · A. tridens tridens (Trident Leaf-Nosed Bat)

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Further Reading

• A study of the mammals of Iran: resulting from the Street Expedition of 1962-63 [by] Douglas M. Lay. 54 1967 [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1967. url p. 138, p. 275, p. 61.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 6, p. 88.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 374.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 83 1939 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 620, p. 658, p. 752, p. 78.
• Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the British Museum. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1878. url .
• Catalogue of the bones of Mammalia in the collection of the British museum. London, Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1862. url .
• Catalogue of the bones of mammalia in the collection of the British Museum / [compiled by Edward Gerrard]. London: printed by Taylor and Francis, by order of the Trustees, 1862 url p. 40.
• Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946 / by J.R. Ellerman and T.C.S. Morrison-Scott. London: BM(NH), 1966. url p. 130.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 602.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 513.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 102 1956 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 350, p. 530.
• Siphonaptera collected during the 1965 Street Expedition to Afghanistan [by] Robert E. Lewis. 64 1973 [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1973. url p. 4, p. 65.
• Streblidae from Yemen, with description of one subspecies of Ascodipteron (Diptera) 39 1958 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1958. url p. 185.
• The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay: The Society, url p. 315, p. 326.
• The bats of Iran: systematics, distribution, ecology / Anthony F. DeBlase. 4 1980 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1980. url fig. 48 , fig. 160 , fig. 53 , fig. 173 , fig. 65 , fig. 135 , p. 121, p. 127, p. 128, p. 266, p. 287, p. 295, p. 299, p. 308, p. 322, p. 335, p. 337, p. 52, p. 79, p. 83, p. v, p. x, p. xiii, p. xvii.
• The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai) / Dale J. Osborn, Ibrahim Helmy. 5 1980 [Chicago]: Field Museum of Natural History, 1980. url p. 577.
• The families and genera of bats / Washington: Govt. Print. 0ff., 1907. url , .
• The families and genera of bats, by Gerrit S. Miller, jr. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1907. url p. 112.
• The mammals of Africa: country lists. Draft document IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre, UNEP, WWF url , .
• Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. London: [The Society], 1879- url p. 446, p. 447.
• Veröffentlichungen der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München. München: Die Staatssammlung, url p. 172, p. 219.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Kock, D., Amr, Z., Mickleburgh, S., Hutson, A.M. & Bergmans, W. 2008. Asellia tridens. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 26, 2007:

• Field Museum, Mammal specimens
• GBIF-Spain, Estacion Biologica Donana - CSIC, Mammal Collection
• Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Israel Nature and Parks Authority
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate specimens
• Museum of Texas Tech University
• , Mammal specimens
• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum, Mammal specimens
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• , Mammal specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 104330
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-631474
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13817119
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 631474
• IUCN ID: 192907
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 794

Footnotes

1. Mean = 301.800 meters (990.157 feet), Standard Deviation = 805.480 based on 56 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Kock, D., Amr, Z., Mickleburgh, S., Hutson, A.M. & Bergmans, W. 2008. Asellia tridens. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]

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