Barbastella barbastellus

• Main Authors: Sachanowicz, Konrad, Ciechanowski, Mateusz, Rachwald, Alek, Piskorski, Michał
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Vespertilionidae; Barbastella; Barbastella barbastellus; Dietz
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4329605; https://zenodo.org/record/4329605

Barbastella barbastellus Pishkash II (41°04.986 ʹ N, 20°31.560 ʹ E, 701 m a.s.l.), 28 September 2005, 4♂ ad., including one that was sexually active, netted while entering a small cave in a limestone gorge. The cave could be used for night-roosting and/or swarming based on what is known from the other Balkan regions (Schunger et al. 2004). The present locality of this species is one of the southernmost on the Balkan Peninsula and demonstrates its wider occurrence in the region, where it has previously been considered to be very local and rare (Paunović et al. 2003). Its nearest previously known localities are in eastern Macedonia (Kryštufek and Petkovski 2003) and central Greece (Hanák et al. 2001). Barbastella barbastellus has been recorded in all of the Balkan countries (Paunović et al. 2003; Pavlinić et al. 2010; Pašić et al. 2013), including Montenegro (A. Rachwald, unpubl. data). : Published as part of Sachanowicz, Konrad, Ciechanowski, Mateusz, Rachwald, Alek & Piskorski, Michał, 2015, Overview of bat species reported in Albania with the first country records for eight species, pp. 513-521 in Journal of Natural History 50 on page 515, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962, http://zenodo.org/record/3985566 : {"references": ["Schunger I, Dietz C, Merdschanova D, Merdschanov S, Christov K, Borissov I, Staneva S, Petrov P. 2004. Swarming of bats (Chiroptera, Mammalia) in the Vodnite Dupki cave (Central Balkan National Park, Bulgaria). Acta Zool Bulg. 56: 323 - 330.", "Paunovic M, Pandurska R, Ivanova T, Karapanda B. 2003. Present knowledge of distribution and status of Barbastella barbastellus (Schreber, 1774) (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) on the Balkan Peninsula. Nyctalus (N. F.). 8: 633 - 638.", "Krystufek B, Petkovski S. 2003. Annotated checklist of the mammals of the Republic of Macedonia. Bonn Zool Beitr. 51: 229 - 254.", "Hanak V, Benda P, Ruedi M, Horacek I, Sofianidou TS. 2001. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean. Part 2. New records and review of distribution of bats in Greece. Acta Soc Zool Bohem. 65: 169 - 279.", "Pavlinic I, Dakovic M, Tvrtkovic N. 2010. The atlas of Croatian bats (Chiroptera), Part I. Nat Croat. 19: 295 - 337.", "Pasic J, Mulaomerovic J, Presetnik P. 2013. Results of survey of potential bat hibernacula in Bosnia and Herzegovina in winter 2012 / 13. Nas Krs. 23: 23 - 35."]}