IRMNG - Megaderma Geoffroy, 1810

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Megaderma Geoffroy, 1810

IRMNG_ID

1379450 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1379450)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Megadermatidae Allen, 1864

Synonymised names

Eucheira Hodgson, 1847 · unaccepted

Lyroderma Peters, 1872 · unaccepted

Spasma Gray, 1866 · unaccepted

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Species Megaderma lyra E. Geoffroy, 1810
Species Megaderma spasma (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Megaderma gigas Dobson, 1880 accepted as Macroderma gigas (Dobson, 1880)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Ann. Mus. H. N. (Paris), 15 (87)
page(s): 190 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic remark Authority cited elsewhere as É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810. Includes Lyroderma as subgenus, refer Wilson & Reeder, 2005.

Taxonomic remark Authority cited elsewhere as É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810. Includes Lyroderma as subgenus, refer Wilson & Reeder, 2005. [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2021). Megaderma Geoffroy, 1810. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1379450 on 2024-04-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

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Sources (11)
Notes (2)

original description Ann. Mus. H. N. (Paris), 15 (87)
page(s): 190 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

basis of record SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 [details]

verified source for family Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

current name source Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. [details]

extant flag source SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB [details]

habitat flag source as per family [details]

original description (of Lyroderma Peters, 1872) MonatsBer. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872
page(s): 195 [details]

original description (of Spasma Gray, 1866) Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1866
page(s): 83 [details]

original description (of Eucheira Hodgson, 1847) J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, (2) 16
page(s): 891 [details]

From other sources

Taxonomic remark Authority cited elsewhere as É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1810. Includes Lyroderma as subgenus, refer Wilson & Reeder, 2005. [details]

Type species as cited Vespertilio spasma Linnaeus, 1758. [details]