Southern big-eared brown bat

Southern big-eared brown bat
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Histiotus
Species:
H. magellanicus
Binomial name
Histiotus magellanicus
Philippi, 1866
Synonyms[2]

H. capucinus (Philippi, 1866)
H. montanus magellanicus (Philippi, 1866)

The southern big-eared brown bat (Histiotus magellanicus) is a species of bat from the family Vespertilionidae. Although current taxonomy treats the southern big-eared brown bat as a separate species, it is often treated as a subspecies of the small big-eared brown bat.[2] It lives in the forests of southern Argentina and Chile; though the population of the bat in the southern part of its habitat is low, there are no major concerns to justify anything lower than a Least Concern rating in the IUCN Red List.[1]

  1. ^ a b Barquez, R.; Diaz, M. (2016). "Histiotus magellanicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T136292A22017718. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T136292A22017718.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Simmons, N.B. (2005). "Order Chiroptera". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 488. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.