Genus Taphozous Geoffroy, 1813

Museums

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• Taphozous Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire], É. 1813. Description des mammifères qui se trouvent en Égypte. pp. 99-144 in Jomard, E.F. (ed.). Description de l'Égypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée Française. Histoire Naturelle. Paris : l'Imprimerie Impériale Vol. 2(9). [publication date established from Anon. 1838. A Bibliographic Account and Collation of La Description de l'Égypte, presented to the Library of the London Institution, by Sir Thomas Baring, Baronet, President: with a list of the other donations made to that Establishment from April 1837 to April 1838. London : London Institution 89 pp. [35–36], Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. 1847. Vie, Travaux et Doctrine Scientifique d'Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Paris : P. Bertrand 479–1 pl. pp. [425], Flourens, [M.J.P.] 1853. Éloge historique d'Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Mém. Acad. Sci. Inst. Fr. 23: i-lxxi [xlviii-xliv] (the date Mars 1813 is printed on a separate of Geoffroy's Description des Mammifères qui se trouvent en Égypte preserved in the BMNH Zoology Library), Sherborn, C.D. 1897. On the dates of the Natural History portion of Savigny's 'Description de l'Égypte'. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897: 285–288 [288] (discusses the BMNH separate, which he calls a proof, when attempting to establish the date of Geoffroy's work)] [113-114, 126-128] [Sherborn, op. cit. p. 288 and Lyon, M.W. 1914. Tadarida Rafinesque versus Nyctinomus Geoffroy. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 27: 217–218 [217] mistakenly attribute the date 1818 to Geoffroy's Description des Mammifères qui se trouvent en Égypt].

  Type species:

   Taphozous perforatus Geoffroy, 1813 by subsequent designation, see Miller, G.S. 1907. The families and genera of bats. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 57: i-xvii 1-282 pls 1-14 [93] (as Taphorzus perforatus Geoffroy).

  Secondary source:

   Lyon, M.W. 1914. Tadarida Rafinesque versus Nyctinomus Geoffroy. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 27: 217-218.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

The Indo-Malayan Region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Gascoyne (GAS) ; NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT, SA, WA: Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN) ; Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Ethiopia

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, W plateau

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

Distribution References

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Dec-2018		18-Nov-2010	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)