Barbastella

{{Short description|Genus of bats}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Mopsfledermaus-drawing.jpg | image_caption = Western barbastelle (''Barbastella barbastellus'') | taxon = Barbastella | authority = Gray, 1821 | type_species = ''Vespertilio barbastellus'' | type_species_authority = Schreber, 1774 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}

'''''Barbastella''''' is a genus of vespertilionid bats.<ref>{{MSW3|id=13802129}}</ref> There are seven extant species in this genus and one only known from fossil remains. It literally means "starbeard", and comes from the Latin words {{Lang|la|barba}}, 'beard', and {{Lang|la|stella}}, 'star', referring to the clusters of stiff hairs that some bats of this genus have around their nostrils, which may resemble a beard or, perhaps, the arrangement of the rays of a star. Furthermore, the Italian term {{Lang|it|barbastello}} is common for bats in northeastern Italy, especially in Ferrara and Bologna; this regional use of Italian could have influenced or been related to the choice of the scientific name. {{Lang|la|Barbastello}} is also believed to have originated from the Latin {{Lang|la|vespertilio}}, the classical word for 'bat'.

==Species== The genus consists of the following species:

* ''Barbastella barbastellus'' (Western barbastelle);<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Rydell |first1=Jens |last2=Bogdanowicz |first2=Wieslaw |date=9 May 1997 |title=Barbastella barbastellus |journal=Mammalian Species |publisher=American Society of Mammalogists |issue=557 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.2307/3504499 |doi-access=free|jstor=3504499 }}</ref> * ''Barbastella beijingensis'' (Beijing barbastelle);<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1644/07-MAMM-A-114R2.1 | last1 = Zhang | first1 = J. S. | last2 = Han | first2 = N. J. | last3 = Jones | first3 = G. | last4 = Lin | first4 = L. K. | last5 = Zhang | first5 = J. P. | last6 = Zhu | first6 = G. J. | last7 = Huang | first7 = D. W. | last8 = Zhang | first8 = S. Y. | title = A New Species of ''Barbastella'' (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from North China | journal = Journal of Mammalogy | volume = 88 | issue = 6 | pages = 1393–1403 |date=December 2007 | jstor = 25145034 | url = http://www.uvm.edu/~bmitchel/temp/Zhang%20-%20New%20Barbastella.pdf  | doi-access = free }}</ref> * ''Barbastella caspica'' (Caspian barbastelle);<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 2025 |title=Barbastella caspica (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in China: first record and complete mitochondrial genome |journal=ZooKeys |language=en-US |issue=1228 |pages=115–126 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.1228.137496 |doi-access=free |issn=1313-2989 |last1=Wang |first1=Zhong-Yu |last2=Abduriyim |first2=Shamshidin |pmid=40012864 |bibcode=2025ZooK.1228..115W |pmc=11862895 }}</ref> * ''Barbastella darjelingensis'' (Eastern barbastelle or Asian barbastelle);<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Horsfield |first=T. |date=1 August 1855 |title=IX.—Brief notices of several new or little-known species of mammalia, lately discovered and collected in Nepal, by Brian Houghton Hodgson, Esq. |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/037454809495489 |journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History |volume=16 |issue=92 |pages=101–114 |doi=10.1080/037454809495489 |issn=0374-5481}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ITIS - Report: Barbastella darjelingensis |url=https://itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=1157354 |access-date=2025-06-23 |website=itis.gov |language=en-US}}</ref> * ''Barbastella leucomelas'' (Arabian barbastelle);<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rüppell |first1=Eduard |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/53779 |title=Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Afrika |last2=Rüppell |first2=Eduard |last3=Cretzschmar |first3=Philipp Jakob |last4=Heyden |first4=Karl Heinrich Georg von |last5=Heyden |first5=Karl Heinrich Georg von |last6=Leuckart |first6=F. S. |last7=Gesellschaft |first7=Senckenbergische Naturforschende |date=1826 |publisher=Gedruckt und in Commission bei Heinr. Ludw. Brönner |location=Frankfurt am Main |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.53779}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Zachos |first=Frank E. |date=2019 |editor-last=Wilson |editor-first=D. E. |editor2-last=Mittermeier |editor2-first=R. A. |title=Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 9. Bats |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s42991-020-00026-w |journal=Mammalian Biology |language=en |publisher=Lynx Edicions |publication-place=Barcelona |publication-date=June 2020 |volume=100 |issue=3 |pages=335 |doi=10.1007/s42991-020-00026-w |isbn=9788416728190 |issn=1616-5047 |via=Springer Nature}}</ref> * ''Barbastella pacifica'' (Japanese barbastelle);<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Kruskop |first1=Sergei V. |last2=Kawai |first2=Kuniko |last3=Tiunov |first3=Mikhail P. |date=18 March 2019 |title=Taxonomic status of the barbastelles (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: Barbastella) from the Japanese archipelago and Kunashir Island |url=https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4567.3.3 |journal=Zootaxa |language=en |volume=4567 |issue=3 |pages=461–476 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4567.3.3 |issn=1175-5334 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> * ''{{extinct}}Barbastella maxima (''An extinct barbastelle discovered in 2019 in Gritsev, Ukraine).<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Rosina |first1=Valentina V. |last2=Kruskop |first2=Sergei |last3=Semenov |first3=Yuriy |date=7 March 2019 |title=New Late Miocene plecotine bats (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae: Plecotini) from Gritsev, Ukraine |url=http://palaeovertebrata.com/articles/view/372 |journal=Palaeovertebrata |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=e2 |doi=10.18563/pv.42.1.e2 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{Commons category-inline|Barbastella|''Barbastella''}} * {{Wikispecies-inline|Barbastella|''Barbastella''}}

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