Genus Miniopterus Bonaparte, 1837

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• Miniopterus Bonaparte, C.L. 1837. Iconografia della Fauna Italica: per le quattro classi degli animali vertebrati. Tomo 1 Mammiferi e Uccelli. Fasc. XXI (1832–1841). Roma : Tipografia Salviucci. [publication date established from Salvadori, T. 1888. Le date della pubblicazione della 'Iconografia della Fauna Italicien' del Bonaparte ed Indice delle species illustrata in detta opera. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 3(48): 1–25 [9]; first page (unnumbered) of text entitled Vespertilio ursinii] [originally made available as a subgenus of Vespertilio Linnaeus, 1758;].

  Type species:

   Miniopterus ursinii Bonaparte, 1837 by monotypy.
• Miniopteris Tomes, R.F. 1858. A monograph of the genus Miniopteris. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1858: 115-128 pl. 65 [publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [440]] [116] [unjustified emendation of Miniopterus Bonaparte, 1837].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hickman, G.C. 1981. National mammal guides: a review of references to Recent faunas. Mammal Review 11: 53-85 (lists works giving taxonomic decisions and extralimital synonyms)

 

Excluded Taxa

VESPERTILIONIDAE: Miniopterus macrodens Maeda, 1982, see Maeda, K. 1982. Studies on the classification of Miniopterus in Eurasia, Australia and Melanesia. Honyurui Kagaku suppl. 1: 1–176 [22-23, 81, 94]; Koopman, K.F. 1984. Taxonomic and distributional notes on tropical Australian bats. American Museum Novitates 2778: 1-48 [23].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Africa, S Europe, Asia, SE Asian islands, New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Afrotropical Region

• Comoros Islands
• Madagascar

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Solomon Islands

Oriental Region

• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

Distribution References