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Harmless serotine

The harmless serotine is a species of vesper bat. It has a restricted range in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. An insectivorous species, it is a resident of tropical dry forest habitat, and is threatened by deforestation.

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Harmless serotine
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Eptesicus
Species:
E. innoxius
Binomial name
Eptesicus innoxius
(Gervais, 1841)
Synonyms

The harmless serotine (Eptesicus innoxius) is a species of vesper bat.3 It has a restricted range in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru.1 An insectivorous species, it is a resident of tropical dry forest habitat, and is threatened by deforestation.1

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References

  1. Velazco, P.; Aguirre, L. (2020) [amended version of 2016 assessment]. "Eptesicus innoxius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020 e.T7932A166506353. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
  2. Cabrera, A. 1957. Catalogo de los mamiferos de America del Sur. I (Metatheria—Unguiculata—Carnivora). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" e Instituto Nacional de Investigacion de Las Ciencias Naturales, Ciencias Zoológicas 4 (1): 1–307.
  3. 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. 455. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.