Published December 31, 1993 | Version v1
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Peropteryx Peters 1867

Description

Peropteryx Peters, 1867. Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867:472.

TYPE SPECIES: Vespertilio caninus Wied-Neuwied, 1821 (preoccupied; = Emballonura macrotis Wagner, 1843).

SYNONYMS: Peronymus.

COMMENTS: Includes Peronymus; see Cabrera (1958:52). Corbet and Hill (1980:45) listed Peronymus as a distinct genus following Sanborn (1937).

Notes

Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 158, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060

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Biodiversity

Family
Emballonuridae
Genus
Peropteryx
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chiroptera
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Peters
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Peropteryx Peters, 1867 sec. Koopman, 1993

References

  • Cabrera, A. 1958. Dos felidos argentinos ineditos (Mammalia, Carnivora). Neotropica, 3 (12): 70 - 72.
  • Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp.
  • Sanborn, C. C. 1937. American bats of the subfamily Emballonurinae. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series, 20: 321 - 354.