Triaenops persicus Dobson 1871

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Hipposideridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 365-379 : 378

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scientific name	Triaenops persicus Dobson 1871
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Triaenops persicus Dobson 1871 , J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 40: 455.

Type Locality: Iran, Shiraz, 4,750 ft. (1,448 m).

Vernacular Names: Persian Trident Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Triaenops persicus subsp. persicus Dobson 1871

Subspecies Triaenops persicus subsp. afer Peters 1876

Subspecies Triaenops persicus subsp. majusculus Aellen and Brosset 1968

Distribution: Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Zanzibar, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Yemen, Oman, Republic of Congo, Iran, Pakistan.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: See Hayman and Hill (1971) and Hill (1982) for discussion of contents. Does not include rufus ; see Peterson et al. (1995). It is possible that majusculus represents a distinct species; see Cotterill (2001 a). Reviewed in part by DeBlase (1980), Harrison and Bates (1991), and Bates and Harrison (1997). See Taylor (2000 a) for distribution map.

References

Cotterill, F. P. D. 2001 a. Distribution records of leaf-nosed bats (Microchiroptera: Hipposideridae) in Zimbabwe. Arnoldia Zimbabwe, 10: 189 - 198.

DeBlase, A. F. 1980. The bats of Iran: Systematics, distribution, ecology. Fieldiana: Zoology, n. s., 4: 1 - 424.

Harrison, D. L., and P. J. J. Bates. 1991. The mammals of Arabia, Second ed. Harrison Zoological Museum, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom, 354 pp.

Hayman, R. W., and J. E. Hill. 1971. Order Chiroptera. Part 2. Pp. 1 - 73, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 15 Jul 1971]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.

Peters, W. C. H. 1876. Uber die Pelzrobbe von der Inseln St. Paul und Amsterdam. Monatsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1876: 315 - 316.

Peterson, R. L., J. L. Eger, and L. Mitchell. 1995. Chiropteres. Faune de Madagascar, 84: 1 - 204.

Taylor, P. J. 2000 a. Bats of Southern Africa: Guide to biology, identification, and conservation. University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 206 pp.