Kuhl's pipistrelle

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Kuhl's pipistrelle
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Pipistrellus
Species:
P. kuhlii
Binomial name
Pipistrellus kuhlii
Kuhl, 1817
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Global range of P. kuhlii (red)
Synonyms

Vespertilio kuhliiKuhl, 1817

Kuhl's pipistrelle (Pipistrellus kuhlii) is a species of vesper bat that occurs in large areas of North Africa, Southern Europe and West Asia. It lives in temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, temperate grassland, rural gardens, and urban areas. [1] It is a rare and infrequent visitor to Britain, usually only detected by sound-recordings.[ citation needed ] A specimen held at the Palestine Natural History Museum is the first record of the species to be "ensnared by a plant in the Arab world". [2]

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Taxonomy

Kuhl's pipistrelle was first named in 1817, under the name Vespertilio kuhlii, in a work by Heinrich Kuhl entitled Die deutschen Fledermäuse ("The bats of Germany"). [3] The specific epithet was chosen by Johann Natterer, who had collected the first specimens, and commemorates Kuhl; under the rules of the ICZN, however, Kuhl himself is regarded as the authority, as the first to report the name. [4]

The population of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Sudan was formerly known as Pipistrellus deserti. [5] This taxon is now considered to be a junior synonym of Pipistrellus kuhlii [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 Juste, J.; Paunović, M. (2016). "Pipistrellus kuhlii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T17314A22132946. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T17314A22132946.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Handal, Elias N., and Mazin B. Qumsiyeh. "The First Record of a Bat Found Ensnared by a Plant in the Occupied Palestinian Territories."
  3. ↑ Heinrich Kuhl (1817). Die deutschen Fledermäuse [The bats of Germany] (in German). Hanau.
  4. ↑ Charles Klaver (2007). Inseparable Friends in Life and Death: Heinrich Kuhl (1797–1821) and Johan Conrad Van Hasselt (1797–1823), Students of Prof. Theo Van Swinderen. Biografieën van Groningse hoogleraren. Barkhuis. p. 93. ISBN   9789077922316.
  5. ↑ Benda, P. 2004. Pipistrellus deserti. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
  6. ↑ Petr Benda; Tommy Andriollo; Manuel Ruedi (November 2015). "Systematic position and taxonomy of Pipistrellus deserti (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)". Mammalia . 79 (4): 419–438. doi:10.1515/MAMMALIA-2014-0024. ISSN   0025-1461. Wikidata   Q37147763.


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