Scotophilus kuhlii Leach 1821
Creators: name: Voon-Ching Lim
name: Rosli Ramli
name: Bhassu, Subha
name: John-James Wilson
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Scotophilus
Scotophilus kuhlii

description: <i>Scotophilus kuhlii</i> Leach, 1821 <i>Scotophilus kuhlii</i> Leach, 1821: 72; INDIA (Collector unknown; Type unknown) [210]. <i>Scotophilus teminckii</i> [23]. <i>Scotophilus kuhlii teminckii</i> [9]. <b>Common English name:</b> Lesser Asian House Bat <b>Barcode Index Number:</b> DNA barcodes recorded as <i>S</i>. <i>kulii</i> are associated with the BIN, BOLD: AAC 0094, but there are no DNA barcodes from Peninsular Malaysia. <b>Remarks:</b> Medway [23] reported <i>S</i>. <i>teminckii</i> from Peninsular Malaysia but Corbet and Hill [9] considered <i>S</i>. <i>teminckii</i> to be a synonym of <i>S</i>. <i>kuhlii</i>. <b>IUCN status:</b> Least Concern <b>Recorded at: Pahang</b>: Krau Wildlife Reserve [11]; <b>Selangor</b>: Bukit Kemandul [40], Bangi Forest Reserve [41], Ulu Gombak [54], Air Hitam Forest Reserve [55]; <b>Perak</b>: Selama [49]; <b>Kelantan:</b> Gunung Reng [62]; <b>Melaka</b>: Sungai Udang Forest Reserve [68]. <i>S</i>. <i>kuhlii</i> is associated with humans and often sighted hunting insects at lamp posts in urban areas [11]. The species roosts in large colonies, often under the roofs of buildings, under the fronds of palms, in hollowed dead trees in forests, and in hollowed old rubber trees in rubber plantations [11, 14, 23].
description: Published as part of <i>Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu &amp; John-James Wilson, 2017, A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library, pp. 1-65 in PLoS ONE 12 (7)</i> on page 50, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179555, http://zenodo.org/record/4251352
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