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Otonycteris
''Otonycteris'' is a genus of vesper bats. Members of this genus are found in Northern Africa and Central Asia. Until recently, it was thought to be monotypic, but in 2010, the Turkestani long-eared bat was distinguished from the desert long-eared bat; previously, all populations were recognized as the desert long-eared bat. Currently, it consists of two species: * Desert long-eared bat (''Otonycteris hemprichii'') **Subspecies ***''Otonycteris hemprichii hemprichii'': found in North Africa, the Levant, and the Middle East ***''Otonycteris hemprichii cinerea'': found in the mountains of Iran and Oman ***''Otonycteris hemprichii jin'': found in low-elevation deserts of the eastern Arabian Peninsula and southeast Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ... * Turkestan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desert Long-eared Bat
The desert long-eared bat (''Otonycteris hemprichii'') is a species of vesper bat found in North Africa and the Middle East. Taxonomy The taxonomic classification of ''Otonycteris'' is unclear, however their chromosomes suggest that this genus is closely related to the ''Barbastella'' and ''Plecotus'' genera. Description It has a body and head length of about 73-81 mm (2.9-3.2 in); a forearm length of about , and a tail length of about . Male desert long-eared bats weigh .Gaisler, J., Madkour, G., & Pelikán, J. (1972). ''On the bats (Chiroptera) of Egypt''. Academia. They have nearly horizontally directed ears, which use a band of skin to connect across the forehead and are about 40 mm in length. The desert long-eared bat has a pale sandy and dark brown upper part, with a whitish bottom. It has a similar skull and similar teeth to the ''Eptesicus''. Some specimens of this species have two sets of mammae in their pectoral muscles, which is unique for mammals. These mammae ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desert Long-eared Bat
The desert long-eared bat (''Otonycteris hemprichii'') is a species of vesper bat found in North Africa and the Middle East. Taxonomy The taxonomic classification of ''Otonycteris'' is unclear, however their chromosomes suggest that this genus is closely related to the ''Barbastella'' and ''Plecotus'' genera. Description It has a body and head length of about 73-81 mm (2.9-3.2 in); a forearm length of about , and a tail length of about . Male desert long-eared bats weigh .Gaisler, J., Madkour, G., & Pelikán, J. (1972). ''On the bats (Chiroptera) of Egypt''. Academia. They have nearly horizontally directed ears, which use a band of skin to connect across the forehead and are about 40 mm in length. The desert long-eared bat has a pale sandy and dark brown upper part, with a whitish bottom. It has a similar skull and similar teeth to the ''Eptesicus''. Some specimens of this species have two sets of mammae in their pectoral muscles, which is unique for mammals. These mammae ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otonycteris Hemprichii
The desert long-eared bat (''Otonycteris hemprichii'') is a species of vesper bat found in North Africa and the Middle East. Taxonomy The taxonomic classification of ''Otonycteris'' is unclear, however their chromosomes suggest that this genus is closely related to the ''Barbastella'' and ''Plecotus'' genera. Description It has a body and head length of about 73-81 mm (2.9-3.2 in); a forearm length of about , and a tail length of about . Male desert long-eared bats weigh .Gaisler, J., Madkour, G., & Pelikán, J. (1972). ''On the bats (Chiroptera) of Egypt''. Academia. They have nearly horizontally directed ears, which use a band of skin to connect across the forehead and are about 40 mm in length. The desert long-eared bat has a pale sandy and dark brown upper part, with a whitish bottom. It has a similar skull and similar teeth to the ''Eptesicus''. Some specimens of this species have two sets of mammae in their pectoral muscles, which is unique for mammals. These mammae ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otonycteris
''Otonycteris'' is a genus of vesper bats. Members of this genus are found in Northern Africa and Central Asia. Until recently, it was thought to be monotypic, but in 2010, the Turkestani long-eared bat was distinguished from the desert long-eared bat; previously, all populations were recognized as the desert long-eared bat. Currently, it consists of two species: * Desert long-eared bat (''Otonycteris hemprichii'') **Subspecies ***''Otonycteris hemprichii hemprichii'': found in North Africa, the Levant, and the Middle East ***''Otonycteris hemprichii cinerea'': found in the mountains of Iran and Oman ***''Otonycteris hemprichii jin'': found in low-elevation deserts of the eastern Arabian Peninsula and southeast Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ... * Turkestan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkestani Long-eared Bat
The Turkestani long-eared bat (''Otonycteris leucophaea'') is a species of bat found in Asia. Though it was initially described in 1873 as a species, for many years it was considered synonymous with the desert long-eared bat, ''Otonycteris hemprichii''. Recently, it was recognized as a distinct species once again. Taxonomy It was described by Russian explorer and naturalist Nikolaj Alekseevič Severcov in 1873, who named it ''Plecotus leucophaea''. In 1925, its name was changed to ''Otonycteris leucophaea''. Since its initial description, its taxonomic status has changed several times. Only recently was it revised to species-level again, in a paper published in 2010. The authors of the paper concluded that the genus ''Otonycteris'', which was previously viewed as monotypic, actually consisted of two species: the desert long-eared bat, ''Otonycteris hemprichii'', and the Turkestani long-eared bat, ''Otonycteris leucophaea''. They drew this conclusion based on morphological and ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otonycteris Leucophaea
The Turkestani long-eared bat (''Otonycteris leucophaea'') is a species of bat found in Asia. Though it was initially described in 1873 as a species, for many years it was considered synonymous with the desert long-eared bat, ''Otonycteris hemprichii''. Recently, it was recognized as a distinct species once again. Taxonomy It was described by Russian explorer and naturalist Nikolaj Alekseevič Severcov in 1873, who named it ''Plecotus leucophaea''. In 1925, its name was changed to ''Otonycteris leucophaea''. Since its initial description, its taxonomic status has changed several times. Only recently was it revised to species-level again, in a paper published in 2010. The authors of the paper concluded that the genus ''Otonycteris'', which was previously viewed as monotypic, actually consisted of two species: the desert long-eared bat, ''Otonycteris hemprichii'', and the Turkestani long-eared bat, ''Otonycteris leucophaea''. They drew this conclusion based on morphological and gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesper Bat
Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats. The vespertilionid family is the most diverse and widely distributed of bat families, specialised in many forms to occupy a range of habitats and ecological circumstances, and it is frequently observed or the subject of research. The facial features of the species are often simple, as they mainly rely on vocally emitted echolocation. The tails of the species are enclosed by the lower flight membranes between the legs. Over 300 species are distributed all over the world, on every continent except Antarctica. It owes its name to the genus ''Vespertilio'', which takes its name from a word for bat, ', derived from the Latin term ' meaning 'evening'; they are termed "evening bats" and were once referred to as "evening birds". (The term "evening bat" also often refers more specifically to one of the species, '' Nycticeius humer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Africa
North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in the west, to Egypt's Suez Canal. Varying sources limit it to the countries of Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia, a region that was known by the French during colonial times as "''Afrique du Nord''" and is known by Arabs as the Maghreb ("West", ''The western part of Arab World''). The United Nations definition includes Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, and the Western Sahara, the territory disputed between Morocco and the Sahrawi Republic. The African Union definition includes the Western Sahara and Mauritania but not Sudan. When used in the term Middle East and North Africa (MENA), it often refers only to the countries of the Maghreb. North Africa includes the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla, and plazas de soberanía ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Asia
Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a subregion, region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes the former Soviet Union, Soviet republics of the Soviet Union, republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, which are colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as the countries all have names ending with the Persian language, Persian suffix "-stan", meaning "land of". The current geographical location of Central Asia was formerly part of the historic region of Turkestan, Turkistan, also known as Turan. In the pre-Islamic and early Islamic eras ( and earlier) Central Asia was inhabited predominantly by Iranian peoples, populated by Eastern Iranian languages, Eastern Iranian-speaking Bactrians, Sogdians, Khwarezmian language, Chorasmians and the semi-nomadic Scythians and Dahae. After expansion by Turkic peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monotypic Taxon
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispecific" or "monospecific" is sometimes preferred. In botanical nomenclature, a monotypic genus is a genus in the special case where a genus and a single species are simultaneously described. In contrast, an oligotypic taxon contains more than one but only a very few subordinate taxa. Examples Just as the term ''monotypic'' is used to describe a taxon including only one subdivision, the contained taxon can also be referred to as monotypic within the higher-level taxon, e.g. a genus monotypic within a family. Some examples of monotypic groups are: Plants * In the order Amborellales, there is only one family, Amborellaceae and there is only one genus, '' Amborella'', and in this genus there is only one species, namely ''Amborella trichopoda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 in Koldenbüttel – 20 April 1883) was a German natural history, naturalist and explorer. He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Berlin Zoological Museum. Encouraged by Müller and the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Peters travelled to Mozambique via Angola in September 1842, exploring the coastal region and the Zambesi River. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens, which he then described in ''Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique... in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt'' (1852–1882). The work was comprehensive in its coverage, dealing with mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, river fish, insects and botany. He replaced Martin Lichtenstein as curator of the museum in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In a few years, he g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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