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Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2005 | Volume: 8 | Issue: 12 | Page No.: 1699-1702
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2005.1699.1702
Taxonomic Status of Kuhl`s Pipistrelle Pipistrellus kuhlii (Kuhl, 1817) in Turkey (Mammalia: Chiroptera)
Atilla Arslan and Irfan Albayrak

Abstract: This study is a taxonomical evaluation of 160 specimens of Pipistrellus kuhlii (Kuhl, 1817) collected in Turkey between 1974 and 2004. The taxonomic properties of Turkish P. kuhlii were compared with records from the Palaearctic Region. In this study, the diagnostic characters, habitat, pelage colour, baculum, external and cranial measurements and distribution of Pipistrellus kuhlii were observed. It was determined P. kuhlii ikhwanius is distributed in Turkey.

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Atilla Arslan and Irfan Albayrak, 2005. Taxonomic Status of Kuhl`s Pipistrelle Pipistrellus kuhlii (Kuhl, 1817) in Turkey (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 8: 1699-1702.

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