Otonycteris hemprichii Peters, 1859
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15121379 |
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Otonycteris hemprichii Peters, 1859 |
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72. Desert Long-eared Bat, Otonycteris hemprichii Peters, 1859 View in CoL
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Subspecies: O. h. hemprichii Peters, 1859 .
Distribution: Abundant; restricted to the crevices of rocky plains and arid areas around the Euphrates Valley, Mesopotamia, Al-Badia, and around Aleppo ( Fig. 79 View FIGURE 79 ).
Previous records: Syrian Desert ( Harrison 1964),Al-Qaryatein ( Harrison 1972), Qal’at er-Rahba and Aleppo (Shehab et al. 2004), es-Salihiyyeh, Ayyash, Halabiyyeh, Zalabiyyeh, Qal’at er-Rahba, Khazneh, Jeiroud, Palmyra, Al-Ghazili north of ar-Raqqa, ar-Raqqa, er-Rasafah ( Benda et al. 2006), Qal’at er-Rahba, er-Rasafah, and el- Ukersheh ( Shehab et al. 2007), and Palmyra ( Serra et al. 2009a, b).
Remarks: According to the results of taxonomic revision by Benda & Gvoždík (2010), the Syrian O. hemprichii populations are part of the nominotypical subspecies occurring in the desert belt that stretches between West Africa and Iraq Mesopotamia.
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