Scotophilus borbonicus (E. Geoffroy, 1803) . Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 8:201.

TYPE LOCALITY: Reunion Isl (France) .

DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar, Reunion Isl (Mascarene Isis). Records from Mauritius (Mascarene Isis) are erroneous, see Cheke and Dahl (1981).

STATUS: May be extinct; see Cheke and Dahl (1981:217).

COMMENTS: Included equivocally in leucogaster by Hayman and Hill (1971:50-51); but see Koopman (1975:414-416). Hill (1980b) considered African viridis and damarensis, and possibly leucogaster to be conspecific with borbonicus, but C. B. Robbins et al. (1985) rejected any affinity with African mainland species. Also see comment under leucogaster . Koopman (1986), included viridis, damarensis, and nigritellus (but not leucogaster) in this species.