Hairy-tailed bats
Hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Tribe: Lasiurini
Genus: Lasiurus
Gray, 1831
Type species
Vespertilio borealis
(Müller, 1776)
Species

20, see text.

Lasiurus is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae. Its members are known as hairy-tailed bats or red bats.[1]

Phylogeny

The following is the relationship of the three genera formerly included within Lasiurus, based on an analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA.[2]

M. lucifugus (outgroup)

Lasiurini
Dasypterus

D. xanthinus

D. ega

D. insularis

D. intermedius

Aeorestes

A. egregius

A. villosissimus

A. semotus

A. cinereus

Lasiurus

L. blossevillii

L. frantzii

L. borealis

L. pfeifferi

L. seminolus

Species

The following are the described species in Lasiurus:

References

  1. Simmons, Nancy B. (2005), "Chiroptera", in Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (eds.), Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 312–529, ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0, retrieved 2 October 2009
  2. Baird, Amy B.; Braun, Janet K.; Engstrom, Mark D.; Holbert, Ashlyn C.; Huerta, Maritza G.; Lim, Burton K.; Mares, Michael A.; Patton, John C.; Bickham, John W. (2017). "Nuclear and mtDNA phylogenetic analyses clarify the evolutionary history of two species of native Hawaiian bats and the taxonomy of Lasiurini (Mammalia: Chiroptera)". PLOS ONE. 12 (10): e0186085. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1286085B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0186085. PMC 5636129. PMID 29020097.
  3. Málaga, Brian A.; Díaz, Darwin R.; Arias, Sandra; Medina, César E. (2020-03-23). "Una especie nueva de Lasiurus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) del suroeste de Perú". Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad (in Spanish). 91. doi:10.22201/ib.20078706e.2020.91.3096. ISSN 2007-8706.
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