| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1986 |
| Authors: | B. Lanza, Finotello P. L. |
| Journal: | Boll. Mus. reg. Sci. nat. Torino |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Pagination: | 389-420 |
| Date Published: | 1986 |
| Keywords: | Chiroptera, distribution, Eurasia, Europe, Fledermäuse, Italy, Mammalia, Mediterranean, Palaearctic, species richness, systematics, taxonomy, Verbreitung, zoogeography |
| Abstract: | The Italian bat fauna (30 or 31 species) has a generally palearctic facies, predominated by fundamentally Eurasiatic (48.38%) and European (32.25%) components. Also present is a strictly Mediterranean (9.67%) group, and one (10%) with two basically Ethiopian species, more (Pipistrellus kuhli) or less (Rhinolophus blasii) spreading in the Mediterranean Subregion, and one subcosmopolitan species (Miniopterus schreibersi) ranging throughout Africa as well. The scarce paleontological evidence available seems to indicate that the recent chiropterological population of Italy, and Europe in general, dates back essentially to the Pliocene and especially to the Quaternary. |