Barbastella
| Barbastella | |
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| Western barbastelle (Barbastella barbastellus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Vespertilionidae |
| Tribe: | Plecotini |
| Genus: | Barbastella Gray, 1821 |
| Type species | |
| Vespertilio barbastellus Schreber, 1774
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Barbastella is a genus of vespertilionid bats.[1] There are seven extant species in this genus and one only known from fossil remains. It comes from the Latin "Barba" (meaning "beard") and "Stella" (meaning "star"), and refers to the clusters of stiff hairs that some bats of this genus have around their nostrils, which may resemble a beard or, perhaps, the arrangement of the rays of a star. Furthermore, the term "barbastello" is common for bats in northeastern Italy, (especially Ferrara and Bologna). This regional use of Italian could have influenced or been related to the choice of the scientific name, and interestingly, the Italian term "barbastello" is also believed to have originated from the Latin "vespertilio" the classical term for bat.
Species
[edit]The genus consists of the following species:
- Barbastella barbastellus – western barbastelle
- Barbastella beijingensis – Beijing barbastelle[2]
- Barbastella caspica – Caspian barbastelle [citation needed]
- Barbastella darjelingensis – eastern barbastelle or Asian barbastelle
- Barbastella leucomelas – Arabian barbastelle
- Barbastella pacifica – Japanese barbastelle [citation needed]
- †Barbastella maxima
References
[edit]- ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Zhang, J. S.; Han, N. J.; Jones, G.; Lin, L. K.; Zhang, J. P.; Zhu, G. J.; Huang, D. W.; Zhang, S. Y. (December 2007). "A New Species of Barbastella (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from North China" (PDF). Journal of Mammalogy. 88 (6): 1393–1403. doi:10.1644/07-MAMM-A-114R2.1. JSTOR 25145034.
External links
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Data related to Barbastella at Wikispecies
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