Eptesicus (Eptesicus) gobiensis Bobrinskii 1926

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 455

Eptesicus (Eptesicus) gobiensis Bobrinskii 1926

Eptesicus (Eptesicus) gobiensis Bobrinskii 1926 , Doklady Akad. Nauk SSSR A: 96.

Type Locality: Mongolia, Gobi Altai Mtns, Burchastei-tala.

Vernacular Names: Gobi Big Brown Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) gobiensis subsp. gobiensis Bobrinskii 1926

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) gobiensis subsp. centrasiaticus Bobrinskii 1926

Subspecies Eptesicus (Eptesicus) gobiensis subsp. kashgaricus Bobrinskii 1926

Distribution: Iran, N Afghanistan, Kashmir, Pakistan, and Nepal, S Russia, Mongolia. Records from Tajikistan and W China including Tibet are uncertain (Horácek et al., 2000).

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Subgenus Eptesicus . Sometime considered conspecific with nilssonii , but see Strelkov (1986), Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987), Yoshiyuki (1989), Corbet and Hill (1992), Bates and Harrison (1997), and Horácek et al. (2000). Placed in the subgenus Amblyotus by Horácek et al. (2000).