Tadarida teniotis

(Rafinesque, 1814)

European Free-tailed Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Chiroptera
Suborder: Yangochiroptera
Superfamily: Vespertilionoidea
Family: Molossidae
Subfamily: Molossinae
Genus: Tadarida

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Rafinesque, C.S. 1814. Précis des découvertes somiologiques ou zoologiques et botaniques de C.S. Rafinesque. Aux dépens de l'Auteur, Palermo, 55 pp.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5282848

Original name as described

Cephalotes teniotis

Type locality

Sicily, Italy.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya · Palearctic

Country distribution

Afghanistan · Albania · Algeria · Armenia · Azerbaijan · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bulgaria · Canary Islands · Croatia · Cyprus · Egypt · France · Georgia · Greece · Iran · Israel · Italy · Jordan · Kazakhstan · Kosovo · Kyrgyzstan · Lebanon · Libya · Malta · Montenegro · Morocco · North Macedonia · Palestine · Portugal · Russia · Saudi Arabia · Serbia · Spain · Switzerland · Syria · Tajikistan · Tunisia · Turkey · Turkmenistan · Uzbekistan

Distribution notes

Records from India and presumably from elsewhere in the Himalayas are T. insignis.

Distribution references

Saikia, U., Chakravarty, R., Csorba, G., Laskar, M.A. and Ruedi, M. 2025. Taxonomic reassessment of bats from the Western Himalayas, India and description of a new species of the Myotis frater complex (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Zootaxa 5644(1):1-78. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5644.1.1

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005267

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 29 names and synonyms.

Cephalotes teniotis

Rafinesque, 1814

Family

Molossidae

Root name

teniotis

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Original type locality

Sicile

Type locality

Italy: Sicily.

Authority page

12

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5282848

Authority publication

Palermo

Name usages

Lesson (1827:114, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207582) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)

Dinops Cestonii

Savi, 1825

Family

Molossidae

Root name

cestonii

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

ZFMK:Mamm:1983.173, BMNH (no number given), NMW (no number given), Pisa (no number given)

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

Italy: Tuscany.

Authority page

235

Authority publication

Nuovo Giornale de' Letterati, Pisa

Name usages

Lesson (1827:104, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207572) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
Keyserling & Blasius (1839:305, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24904216) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/56536)

Dinops Cestoni:

A. G. Desmarest, 1826

Family

Molossidae

Root name

cestoni

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

386

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4422326

Authority publication

Bulletin des Sciences Naturelles et de Géologie

Name usages

Lesson (1842:18) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
Simmons (2005:451) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

Dysopes rupelii

Temminck, 1826

Family

Molossidae

Root name

rueppellii

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

as_emended

Type

SMF:MAMM:12380

Type kind

lectotype

Original type locality

On le trouve en Égypte dans les souterrains des grands edifices.

Type locality

Egypt.

Authority page

224

Authority publication

Paris

Molossus Ruppelii:

Lesson, 1827

Family

Molossidae

Root name

ruppelii

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

101

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207569

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

Lesson (1827:101, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207569) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)

Molossus? Cestoni:

J. B. Fischer, 1829

Family

Molossidae

Root name

cestoni

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

namecombination · incorrectsubsequent_spelling

Authority page

91

Authority publication

Stuttgart

Name usages

Fischer (1829:91) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)
Blainville (1840:101, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57991261) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37123)

Molossus Rüppelii:

J. B. Fischer, 1829

Family

Molossidae

Root name

rueppelii

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

91

Authority publication

Stuttgart

Name usages

Fischer (1829:91) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)

Cephalotes taeniotis:

J. B. Fischer, 1829

Family

Molossidae

Root name

taeniotis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

89

Authority publication

Stuttgart

Name usages

Fischer (1829:89) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)

Nyctinomus Ruppellii:

Lesson, 1836

Family

Molossidae

Root name

ruppellii

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

135

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/62814720

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

Lesson (1842:18) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)

Nyctinomus Rüppelli:

J. E. Gray, 1838

Family

Molossidae

Root name

rueppelli

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

501

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40026404

Authority publication

Magazine of Zoology and Botany

Name usages

Gray (1838:501, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40026404) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34750)

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