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Eptesicus nilssonii varangus subsp. nov. (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera) from the Lower Pleistocene of the Taurida Cave in Crimea

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A new northern serotine bat Eptesicus nilssonii varangus subsp. nov. is described on the base of an incomplete skull and a mandibular fragment from the Lower Pleistocene deposits of the Taurida cave in the central Crimea. This is the earliest record of the species. The presence of E. nilssonii (Keyserling et Blasius, 1839) in the Early Pleistocene bat assemblage of the Taurida cave indicates that this species lived in the south of Eastern Europe before its spreading into Central and Southeastern Europe.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author thanks D.O. Gimranov (Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences), A.V. Lavrov, I.A. Ermolchik, and I.F. Araslanov (PIN) for collecting the material in the Taurida cave, S.V. Bagirov and R.A. Rakitov (PIN) for their help in preparing the images, S.V. Kruskop (ZMMU) for providing material on the recent chiropterans from the collections of the ZMMU for comparative study.

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This study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant no. 22-14-00214, https://rscf.ru/project/22-14-00214/.

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Lopatin, A.V. Eptesicus nilssonii varangus subsp. nov. (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera) from the Lower Pleistocene of the Taurida Cave in Crimea. Dokl Biol Sci 510, 176–182 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496623700382

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