Diet, echolocation calls, and phylogenetic affinities of the great evening bat (Ia io; Vespertilionidae): Another carnivorous bat

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 728-735

  Thabah, Adora ^a   Li, Gang ^b   Wang, Yinan ^b   Liang, Bing ^b   Hu, Kailiang ^c   Zhang, Shuyi ^b,d   Jones, Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c GUIZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carnivory; China; Diet; Echolocation; Flight morphology; Ia io; India

Indexed keywords

BAT; CARNIVORE; DIET; ECHOLOCATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUIZHOU; INDIA; MEGHALAYA; SOUTH ASIA;

AVES; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; IA IO; LEPIDOPTERA; NYCTALUS LASIOPTERUS; ORTHOPTERA; PIPISTRELLUS; SCOTOMANES ORNATUS; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 34347244233     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/06-MAMM-A-167R1.1     Document Type: Article

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