Guadeloupe big brown bat [SEP] parent taxon
Guadeloupe big brown bat
The Guadeloupe big brown bat ("Eptesicus guadeloupensis") is a species of vesper bat. It is found only on the island of Guadeloupe. It is one of the 11 species of bat found on Guadeloupe, and one of the 3 that are endemic.
Taxonomy and etymology.
It was described by Genoways and Baker in 1975.
The holotype used for the species description was collected in July 1974 by the authors in eastern Baie-Mahault of Guadeloupe.
They believed that it
Thomas's fruit-eating bat, "A. watsoni"
- Subgenus: "Koopmania"
- Brown fruit-eating bat, "K. concolor"
- Genus: "Centurio"
- Wrinkle-faced bat, "C. senex"
- Genus: "Chiroderma" - big-eyed bats or white-lined bats
- Brazilian big-eyed bat, "C. doriae"
- Guadeloupe big-eyed bat, "C. improvisum"
- Salvin's big-eyed bat, "C.