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Tadarida
Mexican free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Molossidae
Genus: Tadarida
Rafinesque, 1814
Type species
Cephalotes teniotis
Rafinesque, 1814
Species

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The genus Tadarida has 9 or more species of free-tailed bats divided into two subgenera,[1] with the first of these containing seven species spread across the Old World (including southern Europe and North Africa, large parts of southern Asia, and India right across to Japan). Four species occur exclusively in Africa including Madagascar while two more species occur in central Papua New Guinea, and western and southern Australia, respectively.

The relatively well-known species T. teniotis, which occurs in southern Europe and North Africa, the Middle East, and across southern Asia to Japan, is known to fly often during the late afternoon, where it hawks for insects alongside swifts (Apodidae), swallows, and martins (Hirundinidae).

The other subgenus contains the widespread New World single species T. brasiliensis (subgenus Rhizomops), which ranges from the southern United States and the West Indies to Chile and Argentina. This species is noted for its massive maternity colonies in the United States, especially in the southwest, where an estimated population of over 25 million (possibly as high as 50 million) existed in Eagle Creek Cave in Arizona in the 1960s.

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Taxonomy

Molecular sequence data indicate Tadarida is not a monophyletic taxon. The closest relative of Tadarida aegyptiaca of Africa and southwest Asia is Chaerephon jobimena of Madagascar. These two species plus T. brasiliensis of the Americas form a clade believed to be about 9.8 million years old.[2]

The genus name Tadarida is attributed to the naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, who gave no clues to its etymology.[3] It has been suggested that the name comes from the Corsican word for bat, taddarita. [4] but no such word exists in the Corsican language (where bat is called topu pinnutu). Indeed, Rafinesque, being in Palermo, Sicily, during its studies, probably took this name from Sicilian, where the bat is called taḍḍarita,[5][6] from Greek λαχταρίδα (lachtarida) [7]

Species list for genus:

References

  1. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ Lamb, J. M.; Ralph, T. M. C.; Naidoo, T.; Taylor, P. J.; Ratrimomanarivo, F.; Stanley, W. T.; Goodman, S. M. (June 2011). "Toward a Molecular Phylogeny for the Molossidae (Chiroptera) of the Afro-Malagasy Region". Acta Chiropterologica. 13 (1): 1–16. doi:10.3161/150811011X578589. S2CID 85394657.
  3. ^ Heidt, G. A., Elrod, D. A., & McDaniel, V. R. (1996). Biogeography of Arkansas mammals with notes on species of questionable status. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science, 50(1), 60-65.
  4. ^ Riccucci, Marco (2015). "Derivation of the Generic Name Tadarida (Rafinesque, 1814)". Bat Research News.
  5. ^ Michele Pasqualino da Palermo (1710). Vocabolario siciliano Etimologico, Italiano e Latino. Vol. 4. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  6. ^ Riccucci, Marco (2015). "Derivation of the Generic Name Tadarida (Rafinesque, 1814)". Bat Research News. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292979623_Derivation_of_the_Generic_Name_Tadarida_Rafinesque_1814
  7. ^ "Taddarita in Vocabolario - Treccani".
  8. ^ "Tadarida aegyptiaca (Egyptian free-tailed bat)".
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