| Dubious trumpet-eared bat | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Vespertilionidae |
| Genus: | Phoniscus |
| Species: | P. aerosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Phoniscus aerosus (Tomes, 1858) | |
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The dubious trumpet-eared bat (Phoniscus aerosus) is a species of vesper bat. It was described as a new species in 1858 by zoologist Robert Fisher Tomes. Tomes placed it in the genus Kerivoula, with a scientific name of Kerivoula aerosa. He gave the type locality as the eastern coast of South Africa, though it is now thought that the specimen's origin was mislabeled and the bat is not considered native to Africa.
Ellis Le Geyt Troughton was the first to assert that the species was likely a member of the genus Phoniscus, not Kerivoula.
References
- ^ Francis, C.M.; Csorba, G.; Monadjem, A.; Waldien, D.L. (2022). "Phoniscus aerosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T10967A21975373. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T10967A21975373.en.
- ^ Tomes, Robert F. (1858). "A Monograph of the Genus Kerivoula". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 26: 333–335. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1858.tb06386.x.
- Hill, J. E. (1965). "Asiatic Bats of the Genera Kerivoula and Phoniscus (Vespertilionidae), with a Note on Kerivoula Aerosa Tomes". Mammalia. 29 (4). doi:10.1515/mamm.1965.29.4.524. S2CID 83650290.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Phoniscus aerosa | |
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