Scotophilus heathii Horsfield 1831

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 : 466

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11327388
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scientific name	Scotophilus heathii Horsfield 1831
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Scotophilus heathii Horsfield 1831 View in CoL

Scotophilus heathii Horsfield 1831 View in CoL , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1831: 113.

Type Locality: India, Madras.

Vernacular Names: Greater Asiatic Yellow House Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Scotophilus heathii subsp. heathii Horsfield 1831

Subspecies Scotophilus heathii subsp. insularis Allen 1906

Subspecies Scotophilus heathii subsp. watkinsi Sanborn 1952

Distribution: Afghanistan to S China, including Hainan Isl, south to Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma.

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

Discussion: May include celebensis ; see Tate (1942 a) and Sinha (1980). Reviewed in part by Bates and Harrison (1997) and Hendrichsen et al. (2001 b). Populations from Vietnam have not been allocated to subspecies. Sometimes spelled heathi (e.g., Koopman, 1993).