Eptesicus tatei

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Ecology: Little is known about the habitat or ecology of this species except that it is reported from montane forests (Molur et al. 2002, Das 2003).[1].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Nycticeius atratus

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 08-Jun-2004

This taxon belongs to the nilssonii species group. This taxon was considered incertae cedis by Tate (1942) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) proposed it as nomen novum. This species is known only from three specimens from the type locality (Blyth 1863, Agrawal et al. 1992) of which only two are present in the Zoological Survey of India (Das 2003) (Srinivasulu et al. in press ).[1].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Eptesicus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 48 species and subspecies in this genus:

E. andinus (Little Black Serotinelittle Black Serotine) · E. baverstocki (Inland Forest Bat) · E. bobrinskoi (Bobrinski's Serotine) · E. bottae (Botta's Serotine) · E. brasiliensis (Brazilian Brown Bat) · E. brunneus (Dark-Brown Serotine) · E. capensis (Cape Serotine) · E. chiriquinus (Chiriquinan Serotine) · E. darlingtoni (Large Forest Bat) · E. demissus (Surat Serotine) · E. diminutus (Diminutive Serotine) · E. dimissus (Surat Serotine) · E. douglasorum (Yellow-Lipped Bat) · E. finlaysoni (Big Brown Bats) · E. flavescens (Yellow Serotine) · E. floweri (Horn-Skinned Bat) · E. furinalis (Argentinian Brown Bat) · E. furinalis furinalis (Argentine Brown Bat) · E. fuscus (Big Brown Bat) · E. fuscus fuscus (Big Brown Bat) · E. fuscus wetmorei (Big Brown Bat) · E. gobiensis (Gobi Big Brown Bat) · E. guadeloupensis (Guadeloupean Big Brown Bat) · E. guineensis (Tiny Serotine) · E. hottentotus (Long-Tailed House Bat) · E. innoxius (Harmless Serotine) · E. japonensis (Japanese Short-Tailed Bat) · E. kobayashii (Kobayashi's Serotine) · E. malagasyensis (Isalo Serotine) · E. matroka (Malagasy Serotine) · E. melckorum (Melck's House Bat) · E. nasutus (Sind Serotine Bat) · E. nilssoni (Northern Bat) · E. nilssonii (Northern Bat) · E. nilssoni nilssoni (Northern Bat) · E. pachyotis (Thick-Eared Bat) · E. platyops (Lagos Serotine) · E. pumilus (Eastern Forest Bat) · E. regulus (Southern Forest Bat) · E. rendalli (Rendall's Serotine) · E. sagittula (Large Forest Bat) · E. serotinus (Common Serotine) · E. serotinus pallens (Serotine) · E. somalicus (Somali Serotine) · E. tatei (Sombre Bat) · E. tenuipinnis (White-Winged Serotine) · E. troughtoni (Big Brown Bats) · E. vulturnus (Little Forest Bat)

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Further Reading

• Agarwal, V.C., Das, P.C., Chakraborty, S., Ghose, R.K., Mandal, A.K., Chakraborty, T.K., Poddar, A.K., Lal, J.P., Bhattacharya, T.P. and Ghosh, M.K. 1992. Mammalia. In: State Fauna Series 3: Fauna of West Bengal Part 1 pp: 27-169. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta.
• Agrawal, V. C., Das, P. K., Chakraborty, S., Ghose, R. K., Mandal, A. K., Chakraborty, T. K., Poddar, A. K., Lal, J. P., Bhattacharyya, T. P. and Ghosh, M. K. 1992. Mammalia. In: Zoological Survey of India (ed.), State Fauna Series 3: Fauna of West Bengal, Part 1., pp. 27-169. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta.
• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Bates, P.J.J. and Harrison, D.L. 1997. Bats of the Indian Subcontinent. Harrison Zoological Museum, Kent.
• Blyth, E. 1963. Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum Asiatic Society. Calcutta, India.
• Das, P. K. 2003. Studies on some Indian Chiroptera from West Bengal. Records of the zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 217: 1-164.
• Ellerman, J. R. and Morrison-Scott, T. C. S. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946. British Museum (Natural History), London, UK.
• Ellerman, J.R. and Morrison-Scott, T.C.S. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals. pp: 1758-1996. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, UK.
• Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• Molur, S., Marimuthu, G., Srinivasulu, C., Mistry, S. Hutson, A. M., Bates, P. J. J., Walker, S., Padmapriya, K. and Binupriya, A. R. 2002. Status of South Asian Chiroptera: Conservation Assessment and Management Plan (C.A.M.P.) Workshop Report. Zoo Outreach Organization/CBSG-South Asia, Coimbatore, India.
• Srinivasulu, C., Srinivasulu, B. and Sinha, Y. P. In press. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of South Asia: Biogeography, diversity, taxonomy and distribution. Journal of Threatened Taxa.
• Tate, G. H. H. 1942. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 47. Review of the vespertilionine bats, with special attention to genera and species of the Archbold Collections. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 80: 221-297.
• Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds). 1993. Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. Second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London.
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC, USA. xviii + 1207. ISBN: 1-56098-217-9.

Notes

Contributors

• 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 31, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Molur, S. & Srinivasulu, C. 2008. Eptesicus tatei. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Participants of CBSG CAMP Workshop: Status of South Asian Chiroptera 2004. Eptesicus tatei. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• 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.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 105016
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-631971
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 631971
• IUCN ID: 208004
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4878

Footnotes

1. Molur, S. & Srinivasulu, C. 2008. Eptesicus tatei. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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