Glauconycteris beatrix

O. Thomas, 1901

Beatrix's Butterfly Bat

Also as Beatrix's Bat.
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Location:Sierra Leone, Southern province, Pujehun district, Tiwai IslandDate taken:Mar 29, 2017Description : Also as Beatrix's Bat.

Distribution :

Equatorial Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola.

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 5514

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Yangochiroptera
Superfamily : Vespertilionoidea
Family : Vespertilionidae
Subfamily : Vespertilioninae
Tribe : Nycticeiini
Genus : Glauconycteris

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1901-09-01. New species of Macroscelides and Glauconycteris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)8(45):255-257.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29980304

Original name as described

Glauconycteris beatrix

Other common names

Beatrix's Bat

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1898.5.4.19

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/718485b7-71bb-4d7c-9ba7-6f90a5e9ad79

Type locality

"Benito River, French Congo [= Republic of the Congo], fifteen miles [= 24 km] from mouth."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Cote d'Ivoire · Ghana · Nigeria · Cameroon · Equatorial Guinea · Gabon · Central African Republic · Angola · Republic of the Congo · Democratic Republic of the Congo

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005538

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: 3 names and synonyms.

Glauconycteris beatrix

O. Thomas, 1901

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

beatrix

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1898.5.4.19

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/718485b7-71bb-4d7c-9ba7-6f90a5e9ad79

Authority page

256

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29980304

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Allen (1939:88, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2782178) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5450)
  2. Eisentraut (1963:96) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68788)
  3. Corbet & Hill (1980:71) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  4. Corbet & Hill (1991:80) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  5. Heller, Volleth & Kock (1994:5) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67196)
  6. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  7. Happold & Happold (2013:566) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #44791) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  9. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #44791) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  10. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:833) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  11. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005538) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  12. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/44791/22068514) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Chalinolobus beatrix

(Trouessart, 1904)

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

beatrix

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

84

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53422913

Authority publication

Berlin

Name usages

  1. Trouessart (1904:84, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53422913) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:171) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Koopman (1993:199) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69007)
  4. Koopman (1994:124) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)

C. b. beatrix

(Koopman, 1994)

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

beatrix

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

124

Authority publication

Berlin

Name usages

Koopman (1994:124) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)

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