Antrozous H. Allen, 1862. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. Phil. 14: 248.
Vespertilio pallidus Le Conte, 1856
Antrozous koopmani Orr & Koopman, 1960.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 73: 84.
Koopman's Pallid Bat
Cuba, Provincia de Pinar del Río, Municipio de San Juan y Martínez, Cueva del Hoyo García
Cuba
CITES - Not Listed IUCN - Least Concern under Antrozous pallidus (2017).
References:
García Rivera, L., and C.A Mancina. 2011. Murciélagos Insectívoros. Pages 140-165 In R. Borroto-Páez and C. A. Mancina (eds.) Mamíferos en Cuba. Vaasa, Finland: UPC Print. Not available online.
Martin, C.O., and D.J. Schmidly. 1982. Taxonomic review of the pallid bat, Antrozous pallidus (Le Conte). Special Publications, The Museum, Texas Tech University 18: 1-48. Read article.
Orihuela, J., L. Pérez Orozco, J.L. Álvarez Licourt, R.A. Viera Muñoz, and C. Santana Barani. 2020. Late Holocene land vertebrate fauna from Cueva de los Nesofontes, Western Cuba: stratigraphy, chronology, diversity, and paleoecology. Palaeontologia Electronica 23(3): a57. Read article.
Orihuela, J., L.W. Viñola, and R.A. Viera. 2020. New bat locality records from Cuba with emphasis on the province of Matanzas. Novitates Caribaea 15: 96-116. Read article.
Orr, R.T., and K.F. Koopman. 1960. A new species of bat of the genus Antrozous from Cuba. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 73: 83-86. Read article.
Silva-Taboada, G. 1976. Historia y actualización taxonómica de algunas especies Antillanas de murciélagos de los generos Pteronotus, Brachyphylla, Lasiurus, y Antrozous (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Poeyana (Academia de Ciencias de Cuba) 153: 1-24. Not available online.
Often considered a subspecies of pallidus (see Martin and Schmidly, 1982), but treated as a separate species by other authors (e.g., Silva, 1976; Garcia Rivera and Mancina, 2011; Orihuela et al., 2020, 2020). This species is extremely rare, however, and may be extinct (see Orihuela et al. 2020). Additional research is needed.