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Eptesicus (house bat)

Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1820Eptesicus Rafinesque
1930Eptesicus Hay p. 455
1952Eptesicus Sherman p. 88
1968Eptesicus Choate and Birney
1980Eptesicus Kurten and Anderson p. 122
1994Eptesicus Morgan p. 469
2000Eptesicus Rabon et al. p. 59
2005Eptesicus Czaplewski et al. p. 776
2006Eptesicus Salles et al. p. 8

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
RankNameAuthor
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
orderChiropteraBlumenbach 1779
suborderYangochiropteraKoopman 1984
superfamilyVespertilionoidea
familyVespertilionidae
genusEptesicusRafinesque 1820

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Eptesicus Rafinesque 1820 [house bat]
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Eptesicus aurelianensis Ziegler 1993
Eptesicus campanensis Baudelot 1970
Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 [big brown bat]
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Invalid names: Eptesicus grandis Brown 1908 [synonym]
Eptesicus kowalskii Woloszyn 1987
Eptesicus mossoczyi Woloszyn 1987
Eptesicus noctuloides Lartet 1851
Eptesicus praeglacialis Kormos 1930
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available