Lasiurus
Genus of bats
Lasiurus is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae. Its members are known as hairy-tailed bats or red bats.
01Phylogeny
The following is the relationship of the three genera formerly included within Lasiurus, based on an analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA.
02Species
The following are the described species in Lasiurus:
- Lasiurus arequipae Málaga, Díaz, Arias & Medina, 2020 , Arequipa cinnamon red bat
- Lasiurus atratus (Handley, 1996) , greater red bat
- Southern red bat (Lasiurus blossevillii)
- Eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis)
- Tacarcuna bat (Lasiurus castaneus)
- Hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus)
- Jamaican red bat (Lasiurus degelidus)
- Hairy-tailed bat (Lasiurus ebenus)
- Southern yellow bat (Lasiurus ega)
- Big red bat (Lasiurus egregius)
- Western red bat (Lasiurus frantzii)
- Cuban yellow bat (Lasiurus insularis)
- Northern yellow bat (Lasiurus intermedius)
- Minor red bat (Lasiurus minor)
- Pfeiffer's red bat (Lasiurus pfeifferi)
- Seminole bat (Lasiurus seminolus)
- Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus semotus)
- Cinnamon red bat (Lasiurus varius)
- South American hoary bat (Lasiurus villosissimus)
- Western yellow bat (Lasiurus xanthinus)
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- Lasiurus cinereus Portrait.jpg by Daniel Neal from Sacramento, CA, US, CC BY 2.0
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