Plecotini

Plecotini
Temporal range: Early Oligocene–present
Brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Subfamily: Vespertilioninae
Tribe: Plecotini
Gray, 1866
Genera

Barbastella
Corynorhinus
Euderma
Idionycteris
Otonycteris
Plecotus

"Long-eared bat" redirects here. For the American long-eared bat, see long-eared myotis. For the African long-eared bats, see Laephotis. For the Australasian long-eared bats, see Nyctophilus.

Plecotini is a tribe of bats in the family Vespertilionidae. It contains several genera found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, in Eurasia, North Africa, and North America. Several genera in this tribe are known as big-eared bats or long-eared bats. It also contains the spotted bat and barbastelles.[1][2][3][4]

The oldest fossil record of this group is Qinetia from the early Oligocene of Belgium.[5]

  1. ^ Database, Mammal Diversity (2021-11-06), Mammal Diversity Database, doi:10.5281/zenodo.5651212, retrieved 2021-12-07
  2. ^ "ITIS - Report: Plecotini". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  3. ^ "ADW: Plecotini: CLASSIFICATION". animaldiversity.org. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  4. ^ "BioKIDS - Kids' Inquiry of Diverse Species, Plecotini, big-eared bats, spotted bats, and barbastelles: CLASSIFICATION". www.biokids.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
  5. ^ Spitzenberger, Friederike; Strelkov, Petr P.; Winkler, Hans; Haring, Elisabeth (2006). "A preliminary revision of the genus Plecotus (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) based on genetic and morphological results". Zoologica Scripta. 35 (3): 187–230. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00224.x. ISSN 1463-6409. S2CID 86065200.