Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
Parent taxon: Vespertilionoidae according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Bonaparte 1850, Butler 1984, Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, Czaplewski 1991, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gray 1821, Gray 1825, Hay 1902, Jaekel 1911, Korth et al. 2022, Korth and Evander 2016, Kurten 1968, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Nowak 1991, Ravel et al. 2016, Sherman 1952 and Wilson and Reeder 2005
Sister taxa: Chambinycteris, Drakonycteris, Molossidae, Natalidae
Subtaxa: Ancenycteris Antrozous Anzanycteris Barbastella Chadronycteris Corynorhinus Eptesicus Hanakia Hypsugo Ia Karstala Kerivoulinae Khonsunycteris Lasionycteris Lasiurus Miomyotis Miostrellus Murina Myotinae Myotis Noctilioninia Nyctalus Nycticeius Nyctophylinae Oligomyotis Paleptesicus Perimyotis Phyllostomina Pipistrellus Plionycteris Potamonycteris Pteropina Rhinolophina Rhogeessa Scotomanes Scotophilus Shanwangia Simonycteris Sonor Stehlinia Suaptenos Synemporion Tylonycteris Vespertilio Vespertilionae Vespertilionina Vespertilioninae
Type: Vespertilio
Ecology: volant omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (4 collections), Austria (1), the Bahamas (4), Belgium (1), Bermuda (2), Brazil (3), Canada (1: British Columbia), Cayman Islands (2), China (4), Cuba (2), Czechia (3), Ecuador (2), France (4), Germany (2), Greece (6), Hungary (7), Israel (4), Italy (13), Japan (1), Kenya (1), Mexico (3), Peru (1), the Philippines (4), Poland (1), Romania (2), South Africa (3), Spain (22), the United Kingdom (1), United States (91: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia), Venezuela (2), Yemen (2)
• Villafranchian of Hungary (2)
• Blancan of United States (14: Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Texas)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)
• Pliocene of Austria (1), China (1), Hungary (2), Italy (1), Poland (2), South Africa (2), Spain (2), Türkiye (1)
• MN 13 of France (1)
• Turolian of China (3), Greece (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (1), United States (7: Arizona, Florida, Nevada, Oregon, Texas)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Greece (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Austria (6), China (6), Colombia (1), France (2), Germany (5), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Libya (1), Morocco (1), Portugal (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (3), Thailand (1), Türkiye (2), United States (20: Delaware, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon)
• Harrisonian of United States (1: Florida)
• Arikareean of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Belgium (2), Egypt (1), France (2), Germany (2), United States (5: Colorado, Florida, Montana, Nebraska)
• Eocene to Oligocene of France (1), United States (1: Nebraska)
• Eocene of France (6), Switzerland (3), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Nebraska, Nevada)
Total: 328 collections including 659 occurrences