Southern big-eared brown bat

Southern big-eared brown bat
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Histiotus
Species: H. magellanicus
Binomial name
Histiotus magellanicus
Philippi, 1866
Synonyms[2]

H. capucinus (Philippi, 1866)

The southern big-eared brown bat is a species of bat from the family Vespertilionidae. Although current taxonomy treats the southern big-eared brown bat as a separate species, it is often treated as a subspecies of the small big-eared brown bat.[2] It lives in the forests of southern Argentina and Chile; though the population of the bat in the southern part of its habitat is low, there are no major concerns to justify anything lower than a Least Concern rating in the IUCN Red List.[1] There is some habitat destruction, as well as trouble with beavers in Tierra del Fuego.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Barquez, R. & Diaz, M. (2008). "Histiotus magellanicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Simmons, N. B. (2005). "Order Chiroptera". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 488. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.