Lasiurus

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Hairy-tailed bats
Lasiurus cinereus Portrait.jpg
Hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Tribe: Lasiurini
Genus: Lasiurus
Gray, 1831
Type species
Vespertilio borealis
(Müller, 1776)
Species

13, see text.

Lasiurus is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae. Its members are known as hairy-tailed bats or red bats.[1]

Phylogeny[]

The following is the relationship of the three genera formerly included within Lasiurus, based on an analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA.[2]

 

M. lucifugus (outgroup)

 
Lasiurini
Dasypterus
 

D. xanthinus

 
 
 

D. ega

 
 
 

D. insularis

 
 

D. intermedius

 
 
 
 
 
Aeorestes
 

A. egregius

 
 
 

A. villosissimus

 
 
 

A. semotus

 
 

A. cinereus

 
 
 
 
Lasiurus
 
 

L. blossevillii

 
 

L. frantzii

 
 
 
 

L. borealis

 
 
 

L. pfeifferi

 
 

L. seminolus

 
 
 
 
 
 

Species[]

There are currently 13 described species in Lasiurus:

  • Málaga, Díaz, Arias & Medina, 2020[3] — Arequipa cinnamon red bat
  • Lasiurus atratus (Handley, 1996) — greater red bat
  • Lasiurus blossevillii (Lesson and Garnot, 1826) — southern red bat
  • Lasiurus borealis (Müller, 1776) — eastern red bat
  • Lasiurus castaneus (Handley, 1960) — Tacarcuna bat
  • Lasiurus degelidus (Miller, 1931) — Jamaican red bat
  • Lasiurus ebenus (Fazzolari-Correa, 1994) — hairy-tailed bat
  • Lasiurus frantzii — western red bat
  • Lasiurus minor (Miller, 1931)— minor red bat
  • Lasiurus pfeifferi (Gundlach, 1861)— Pfeiffer's red bat
  • Lasiurus salinae (Thomas, 1902)— saline red bat
  • Lasiurus seminolus (Rhoads, 1895) — Seminole bat
  • Lasiurus varius — cinnamon red bat

References[]

  1. ^ Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Chiroptera", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 312–529, ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0, retrieved 2 October 2009
  2. ^ Baird, Amy B.; Braun, Janet K.; Engstrom, Mark D.; Holbert, Ashlyn C.; Huerta, Maritza G.; Lim, Burton K.; Mares, Michael A.; Patton, John C.; Bickham, John W. (2017). "Nuclear and mtDNA phylogenetic analyses clarify the evolutionary history of two species of native Hawaiian bats and the taxonomy of Lasiurini (Mammalia: Chiroptera)". PLOS ONE. 12 (10): e0186085. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1286085B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0186085. PMC 5636129. PMID 29020097.
  3. ^ Málaga, Brian A.; Díaz, Darwin R.; Arias, Sandra; Medina, César E. (2020-03-23). "Una especie nueva de Lasiurus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) del suroeste de Perú". Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad (in Spanish). 91. doi:10.22201/ib.20078706e.2020.91.3096. ISSN 2007-8706.
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