Noctilio leporinus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Noctilionoidea
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 Subclassis: Trechnotheria Infraclassis: Zatheria Supercohors: Theria Cohors: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Cladus: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Cladus: Scrotifera Ordo: Chiroptera Subordo: Yangochiroptera Superfamilia: Noctilionoidea

Familia: Noctilionidae
Genus: Noctilio
Subgenus: Noctilio (Noctilio)
Species: Noctilio leporinus
Subspecies (3): N. l. leporinus – N. l. mastivus – N. l. rufescens

Name

Noctilio leporinus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Holotype: BMNH 1867.4.12.339, adult ♂, body in alcohol, purchased from Lith de Jeude in 1867.
Type locality: “America”, restricted to “Surinam” by Thomas (1911: 131).

Combinations

Vespertilio leporinus Linnaeus, 1758: 32 [original combination]
Noctilio leporinus: Illiger, 1815: 109 [subsequent combination]

Native distribution areas

Noctilio leporinus — distribution map

Mexico (Sinaloa) to the Guianas, South Brazil, North Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Peru
Trinidad
Greater and Lesser Antilles
South Bahamas: Great Inagua Island

References

Primary references

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page.
Illiger, J.K.W. 1815. Ueberblick der Säugthiere nach ihrer Vertheilung über die Welttheile. Abhandlungen der physikalischen Klasse der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1804–1811: 39–140. BHL Reference page.
Thomas, O. 1911. The Mammals of the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus; an Attempt to fix the Types of the Genera and the exact Bases and Localities of the Species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 81(1): 120–158. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1911.tb06995.x BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Thomas, O. 1892. On the probable identity of certain specimens, formerly in the Lidth de Jeude Collection, and now in the British Museum, with those figured by Albert Seba in his ‘Thesaurus’ of 1734. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 60(3): 309–318. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1892.tb06833.x ; BHL Reference page.
Davis, W.B. 1973. Geographic Variation in the Fishing Bat, Noctilio leporinus. Journal of Mammalogy 54(4): 862–874. DOI: 10.2307/1379081 Reference page.
Carter, D.C. & Dolan, P.G. 1978. Catalogue of Type Specimens of Neotropical Bats in Selected European Museums. Special Publications. The Museum Texas Tech University 15: 1–136. BHL Reference page.
Pavan, A.C., Martins, F.M. & Morgante, J.S. 2013. Evolutionary history of bulldog bats (genus Noctilio): recent diversification and the role of the Caribbean in Neotropical biogeography. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 108(1): 210–224. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01979.x Reference page.
Pietsch, T.W. & Marx, B. 2021. Charles Plumier's (1646–1704) Vespertilio maximus ex insula Sancti Vincentii: a previously unpublished description and drawings of the Greater Bulldog Bat, Noctilio leporinus (Linnaeus, 1758). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 134(1): 29–41. DOI: 10.2988/006-324X-134.1.29 Reference page.

Links

Barquez, R., Perez, S., Miller, B. & Diaz, M. 2015. IUCN: Noctilio leporinus (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T14830A22019554. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T14830A22019554.en. Accessed on 19 June 2024.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Großes Hasenmaul
English: Greater Bulldog Bat
español: Murciélago pescador grande
français: Grand Noctilion
magyar: Nagy nyúlszájú denevér
italiano: Pipistrello pescatore maggiore
Nederlands: Grote hazenlipvleermuis
português do Brasil: Morcego-pescador-grande

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