Genus Chaerephon Dobson, 1874

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• Chaerephon Dobson, G.E. 1874. On the Asiatic species of Molossi. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ns 43: 142-144 [144] [as Choerephon; originally proposed as a subgenus of Nyctinomus Geoffroy, 1813].

  Type species:

   Nyctinomus johorensis Dobson, 1873 by monotypy.

 

Excluded Taxa

MOLOSSIDAE: Chaerephon plicata (Buchannan, 1800), see Lucas, A.H.S. 1897. On some facts in the geographical distribution of land and fresh-water vertebrates in Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 9: 34-53 [36]; Hill, J.E. 1961. Indo-Australian bats of the genus Tadarida. Mammalia 25: 29-56 [50].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Africa south of the Sahara, Aldabra Is., SW Arabian peninsula, Malay peninsula, S China, New Guinea, Jobi Is. and New Hebrides.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Afrotropical Region

• Madagascar

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, W plateau
• Fiji

Oriental Region

• China (People's Republic)
• India
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka

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