Overview of bat species reported in Albania with the first country records for eight species
| Autor: | Alek Rachwald, Konrad Sachanowicz, Mateusz Ciechanowski, Michał Piskorski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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0106 biological sciences
Species complex Rhinolophidae Rhinolophus mehelyi Ecology Fauna Biodiversity Vespertilionidae Biology biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences 010601 ecology Barbastella barbastellus Myotis mystacinus Chiroptera Mammalia Animalia Pipistrellus pipistrellus Chordata Nyctalus lasiopterus Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Taxonomy Plecotus austriacus |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Natural History. 50:513-521 |
| ISSN: | 1464-5262 0022-2933 |
| Popis: | The bat fauna of Albania, a country located in a Balkan glacial refugium and a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot, has remained poorly studied although as many as 21 species and representatives of three species complexes had been reported before 2003. It was expected that several new species would be added to the country’s list of fauna, not only due to their occurrence in adjacent regions but to the splitting of already known taxa into sibling species and the discovery of new, cryptic species. Altogether, we recorded 32 bat species in Albania, including all of those previously reported (21) and 11 new species for the country, as a result of field work conducted in 2003–2012. Here, we report on eight bat species including Rhinolophus mehelyi, Nyctalus lasiopterus, Plecotus kolombatovici, Barbastella barbastellus, Myotis brandtii that had not been reported previously in Albania while three species (Pipistrellus pipistrellus, Plecotus austriacus, Myotis mystacinus) had been reported before changes t... |
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