Lasiurus
| Hairy-tailed bats | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Vespertilionidae |
| Tribe: | Lasiurini |
| Genus: | Lasiurus Gray, 1831 |
| Type species | |
| Vespertilio borealis (Müller, 1776) | |
| Species | |
| 20, 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
[edit]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 | |
Species
[edit]The following are the described species in Lasiurus:
- Lasiurus arequipae Málaga, Díaz, Arias & Medina, 2020[3] — Arequipa cinnamon red bat
- Lasiurus atratus (Handley, 1996) — greater red bat
- Southern red bat (Lasiurus blossevillii)
- Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis)
- Tacarcuna bat (Lasiurus castaneus)
- Hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus)
- Jamaican red bat (Lasiurus degelidus
- Hairy-tailed bat (Lasiurus ebenus)
- Southern yellow bat (Lasiurus ega)
- Big red bat (Lasiurus egregius)
- Western red bat (Lasiurus frantzii)
- Lasiurus insularis (Lasiurus insularis)
- Northern yellow bat (Lasiurus intermedius)
- Minor red bat (Lasiurus minor)
- Pfeiffer's red bat (Lasiurus pfeifferi)
- Seminole bat (Lasiurus seminolus)
- Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus semotus)
- Cinnamon red bat (Lasiurus varius)
- South American hoary bat (Lasiurus villosissimus)
- Western yellow bat (Lasiurus xanthinus)
References
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.