Cnephaeus bottae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Vespertilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Cladus: Scrotifera Ordo: Chiroptera Subordo: Yangochiroptera Superfamilia: Vespertilionoidea

Familia: Vespertilionidae
Subfamilia: Vespertilioninae
Tribus: Nycticeiini
Genus: Cnephaeus
Species: Cnephaeus bottae
Subspecies (5): C. b. bottae – C. b. hingstoni – C. b. innesi – C. b. omanensis – C. b. taftanimontis

Name

Cnephaeus bottae (Peters, 1869)

• Holotype: MNHN-ZM-MO-1987-297, adult ♂, body in alcohol with skull extracted, collected by Paolo Emilio Botta in 1837.
• Type locality: “Arabien”, restricted to “Yemen” by Ellerman & Morrison-Scott (1951), and restricted to “SW Yemen” by Nader & Kock (1990: 2).

Combinations

• Vesperugo bottae Peters, 1869: 406 [original combination]
• Eptesicus bottae — Tate, 1942: 277 [subsequent combination]
• Cnephaeus anatolicus: Cláudio et al., 2023: 2 [subsequent combination]

Native distribution areas

• Egypt
• Israel
• Jordan
• Yemen
• Saudi Arabia
• Iraq
• Iran (possible)

References

Primary references

• Peters, W. 1869. Bemerkungen über neue oder weniger bekannte Flederthiere, besonders des Pariser Museums. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869: 391–406. BHL
• Cláudio, V.C., Novaes, R.L.M., Gardner, A.L., Nogueira, M.R., Wilson, D.E., Maldonado, J.E., Oliveira, J.A. & Moratelli, R. 2023. Taxonomic re-evaluation of New World Eptesicus and Histiotus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), with the description of a new genus. Zoologia 40: e22029. DOI: 10.1590/S1984-4689.v40.e22029 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Juste, J., Benda, P., García-Mudarra, J.L. & Ibáñez, C. 2013. Phylogeny and systematics of Old World serotine bats (genus Eptesicus, Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera): an integrative approach. Zoologica Scripta 42(5): 441–457. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12020 Reference page. 

Links

• Aulagnier, S., Karataş, A. & Tsytsulina, K. 2008. IUCN: Cnephaeus bottae  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T7915A12869203. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T7915A12869203.en

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Bottas Fledermaus
English: Botta's Serotine
français: Sérotine de Botta
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