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Title: A New Bat (Genus Pipistrellus) from Northeastern Mexico

Author: Rollin H. Baker

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 7, No. 10, pp. 583-586
November 15, 1954

A New Bat (Genus Pipistrellus)
from Northeastern Mexico

BY
ROLLIN H. BAKER

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1954

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard,
Robert W. Wilson

Volume 7, No. 10, pp. 583-586
Published November 15, 1954

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1954

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A New Bat (Genus Pipistrellus)
from Northeastern Mexico

by
Rollin H. Baker

The eastern pipistrelle, _Pipistrellus subflavus_ (Cuvier) in the
western part of its range, occurs along the Rio Grande and its
tributaries as far west as northern Coahuila and Val Verde County,
Texas. Specimens from those places represent a heretofore undescribed
subspecies which may be named and described as follows:

#Pipistrellus subflavus clarus new subspecies#

_Type._--Female, adult, skin and skull; No. 48270, Univ. Kansas
Mus. Nat. Hist.; 2 mi. W Jimenez, el. 850 ft., Coahuila; 19 June
1952; obtained by Rollin H. Baker, original No. 2062.

_Range._--Known from northern Coahuila and adjacent parts of
southwestern Texas.

_Diagnosis._--Size large (see measurements); upper parts pale, near
(_c_) Cinnamon-Buff (capitalized color term after Ridgway, Color
Standards and Color Nomenclature, Washington, D. C., 1912); skull
large; zygomata expanded laterally.

_Comparisons._--Compared with _Pipis