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Eptesicus fuscus (big brown bat)
Taxonomy
Vespertilio fuscus was named by Beauvois (1796). It is extant.
It was recombined as Eptesicus fuscus by Hay (1930), Sherman (1952), Choate and Birney (1968), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Morgan (1994), Rabon et al. (2000), Czaplewski et al. (2005), Eshelman et al. (2025).
It was recombined as Eptesicus fuscus by Hay (1930), Sherman (1952), Choate and Birney (1968), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Morgan (1994), Rabon et al. (2000), Czaplewski et al. (2005), Eshelman et al. (2025).
Subspecies
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1796 | Vespertilio fuscus Beauvois |
| 1902 | Vespertilio fuscus Hay p. 742 |
| 1908 | Vespertilio fuscus grandis Brown |
| 1930 | Eptesicus fuscus Hay p. 455 |
| 1952 | Eptesicus fuscus Sherman p. 88 |
| 1956 | Eptesicus grandis Handley, Jr. p. 254 |
| 1968 | Eptesicus fuscus Choate and Birney |
| 1980 | Eptesicus fuscus Kurten and Anderson p. 122 |
| 1994 | Eptesicus fuscus Morgan p. 489 |
| 2000 | Eptesicus fuscus Rabon et al. p. 59 |
| 2005 | Eptesicus fuscus Czaplewski et al. p. 776 |
| 2025 | Eptesicus fuscus Eshelman et al. p. 90 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 [big brown bat]
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Invalid names: Eptesicus grandis Brown 1908 [synonym]
Eptesicus fuscus wetmorei Jackson 1916
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Simmons et al. 2008 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 2.58000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 1.4 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 1.4 Ma
Collections (42 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Blancan | USA (Texas) | Eptesicus fuscus (20060) | |
| Blancan | USA (California) | Eptesicus fuscus (19708) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (Tennessee) | Eptesicus fuscus (74246) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (West Virginia) | Eptesicus fuscus (123875 124319) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (West Virginia) | Eptesicus grandis (79663) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Maryland) | Eptesicus grandis (20302) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Virginia) | Eptesicus fuscus (20388) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (West Virginia) | Eptesicus fuscus (20554 20555) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Arkansas) | Eptesicus grandis (20290) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Texas) | Eptesicus fuscus (20164) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | USA (Virginia) | Eptesicus fuscus (104662) | |
| Rancholabrean | USA (Florida) | Eptesicus fuscus (195112) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | USA (Florida) | Eptesicus fuscus (154722) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (West Virginia) | Eptesicus fuscus (93332 124199) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Bahamas (Great Abaco Island) | Eptesicus fuscus (144663) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | USA (New Mexico) | Eptesicus fuscus (76060) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Cuba (Pinar del Río) | Eptesicus fuscus (78640) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Georgia) | Eptesicus grandis (13066) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Alabama) | Eptesicus fuscus (84195) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | Venezuela (Zulia) | Eptesicus fuscus (63515) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Virginia) | Eptesicus fuscus (103991 104758 124089) Eptesicus fuscus, Eptesicus grandis (82258) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Texas) | Eptesicus fuscus (74473) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Virginia) | Eptesicus fuscus (104034 104035 104672) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Missouri) | Eptesicus fuscus (63565 63566 63568 63569 63571) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Bahamas (San Salvador) | Eptesicus fuscus (190743) | |
| Holocene | Bahamas | Eptesicus fuscus (194597) | |
| Holocene | Cayman Islands (Grand Cayman) | Eptesicus fuscus (144132 210532) | |
| Holocene | USA (Arizona) | Eptesicus fuscus (63723 233123) |