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Eptesicus
Rafinesque, 1820
- big brown bats
(mammal)
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Entity:
Eptesicini (Tribe)
..†Ancenycteris (Genus)
..Arielulus (Genus)
..Hesperoptenus (Genus)
..†Paleptesicus (Genus)
..Eptesicus (Genus) - big brown bats
....Eptesicus (Subgenus)
....†Eptesicus kowalskii (Species)
....†Eptesicus mossoczyi (Species)
....Rhinopterus (Subgenus)
Authorship
Original name
:
Rafinesque, 1820:2.
Original rank
:
Original spelling
:
Types
Type of
:
Eptesicini
(Tribe)
Volleth & Heller, 1994
Ref:
N.B. Simmons, 2005
: 452.
[inferred]
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
Eptesicus
(Subgenus)
Rafinesque, 1820
Synonyms
Accepted name
:
Neoromicia
(Subgenus)
Roberts, 1926
Ref:
G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
Accepted name
:
Vespadelus
(Subgenus)
Troughton, 1943
Ref:
G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
Synonymous name
:
Vespertilio
(Genus)
Linnaeus, 1758
Ref:
G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
breedvleugelvleermuizen
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
big brown bats
:
house bats
:
serotines
:
brown bats
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