Unusual Pipistrelle: Taxonomic Position of the Malayan Noctule (Pipistrellus stenopterus; Vespertilionidae; Chiroptera).

ABSTRACT: Sergei V. Kruskop, Evgeniya N. Solovyeva, and Anna D. Kaznadzey (2018) Despite huge progress in the systematics of bats and, in particular, of the Vespertilionidae family in latest years, the taxonomic position of a number of remarkable bat species has been uncertain until now, partly because of limits in acceptable comparative material. Researchers have previously placed the Malayan noctule, Pipistrellus stenopterus, into Nyctalus, because of similar body shape and proportions, or into Pipistrellus, based on karyological analysis. This study reassesses Pipistrellus stenopterus using available collection material and compares it to various members of Nyctalus and Pipistrellus, as well as with some other related and similar genera, based on r

SUBMITTER: Kruskop SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6409446 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature