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قراءة كتاب A Synopsis of the American Bats of the Genus Pipistrellus
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A Synopsis of the American Bats of the Genus Pipistrellus
Arizona: 11 mi. NW Kayenta; Tinajas Altas. Baja California: Cataviñá; San José; Laguna Hanson. California: Dos Palmos Spring; Banning; Victorville; 12 mi. below (down river) Bodfish; Little Lake; 2 mi. S Benton Station. Nevada: 2 mi. NW Morgans Ranch; Deephole. Oregon: Princeton.
Diagnosis.—Size medium for the species; total length, 71.8(66-74); tibia, 12.0(10.7-13.5); forearm, 29.4(27.8-31.8); greatest length of skull, 11.9(11.5-12.3); breadth of braincase, 6.3(6.1-6.4). Color between Drab Gray and Smoke Gray, dorsally; between Smoke Gray and Pale Smoke Gray, ventrally (after Hatfield, Jour. Mamm., 17:257, 1936).
Vesperugo merriami Dobson, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 18(ser. 5): 124, August, 1896.
Pipistrellus hesperus merriami Grinnell, Proc. California Acad. Sci., 3(ser. 4):279, August 28, 1913.
Type locality.—Red Bluff, Tehama County, California.
Range.—California west of the Sierra Nevada; the Sacramento Valley, the San Joaquin Valley, and the Coast Range from San Francisco Bay south to San Diego County. Marginal occurrences (after Hatfield, Jour. Mamm., 17:260, 1936, unless otherwise noted) are: California: Dales on Paines Creek; Fyffe; Yosemite Valley; Shaver Ranger Station; Springville; Fort Tejon; Painted Gorge (P. H. Krutzsch, MS); Carrizo Creek; thence northward up the coast probably to San Francisco Bay; in the Sacramento Valley west to Rumsey.
Diagnosis.—Size medium for the species; total length, 71.3(66-78); tibia, 11.2(10.6-11.7); forearm, 28.9(27.5-30.8); greatest length of skull, 11.8(11.3-12.2); breadth of braincase, 6.4(6.0-6.6). Color Buffy Brown to Army Brown, dorsally; Wood Brown to Buffy Brown, ventrally (after Hatfield, op. cit.: 258, 260).
Pipistrellus hesperus australis Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, 13:90, October 16, 1897.
Pipistrellus hesperus apus Elliot, Field Columb. Mus., pub. 90, zool. ser., 3:269, March 8, 1904. Type from Providencia Mines, Sonora, Mexico.
Type locality.—Barranca Ibarra, Jalisco, Mexico.
Range.—Central Arizona south to Jalisco and including the southern half of Baja California. Marginal occurrences (after Hatfield, op. cit.: 261, unless otherwise indicated) are: Arizona: Camp Verde; Fort Bowie. Sonora: Pilares (Burt, Miscl. Publ., Mus. Zool., Univ. Michigan, 39:24, 1938). Jalisco: Barranca Ibarra (Miller, orig. descr.). Baja California: Miraflores; San Ignacio. Arizona: Bates Well.
Diagnosis.—Size small for the species; total length, 67.1(60-72); tibia, 11.3(10.1-12.3); forearm, 28.4(26.3-30.0); greatest length of skull, 11.7(11.3-12.0); breadth of braincase, 6.1(5.9-6.3). Color: between Cinnamon Drab and Drab, dorsally; Wood Brown to Light Drab, ventrally (after Hatfield, op. cit.:260).
Remarks.—Hatfield (op. cit.) examined no specimens from Mexico (Baja California excepted) and Burt (op. cit.) who did examine some specimens (from Sonora), referred one from northwestern Sonora to P. h. hesperus and those from northeastern Sonora to P. h. merriami. Since our treatment of subspecies of Pipistrellus (