Eastern Red Bat
Lasiurus borealis (Müller, 1776)

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Trogloxene

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from eight counties across four states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee

Counties

Arkansas

Garland, Stone

Georgia

Dade, Polk

Kentucky

Carter, Edmonson

Tennessee

Blount, Sevier

Conservation and management

IUCN Red List

LC Least Concern

Assessed in 2016.

NatureServe

G3 Vulnerable

National ranks

Canada

N4B Apparently Secure (breeding), NUM (migrant)

United States

N5 Secure

Subnational ranks

Ontario

S3 Vulnerable

Quebec

S1B Critically Imperiled (breeding)

Saskatchewan

S4B Apparently Secure (breeding)

Alberta

S3B Vulnerable (breeding), SNRM (migrant)

Manitoba

S3B Vulnerable (breeding)

New Brunswick

SUB (breeding), S2M Imperiled (migrant)

Nova Scotia

SUB (breeding), S1M Critically Imperiled (migrant)

British Columbia

SU Unrankable

Georgia

S5 Secure

Oklahoma

SNR Unranked

ND

SNR Unranked

Florida

SNR Unranked

NJ

S3 Vulnerable

New Mexico

S3N Vulnerable (non-breeding)

NH

S3B Vulnerable (breeding)

Massachusetts

S3 Vulnerable

RI

SNR Unranked

Colorado

S2B Imperiled (breeding)

Vermont

S4B Apparently Secure (breeding)

Ohio

SNR Unranked

Kansas

S5B Secure (breeding)

Tennessee

S5 Secure

Minnesota

SNR Unranked

South Carolina

S3 Vulnerable

Michigan

S5 Secure

North Carolina

S5 Secure

Mississippi

S4 Apparently Secure

Arizona

SNR Unranked

ME

SU Unrankable

Virginia

S4 Apparently Secure

Louisiana

S4 Apparently Secure

Pennsylvania

S4 Apparently Secure

DE

S5 Secure

Connecticut

S3B Vulnerable (breeding)

Texas

S4 Apparently Secure

Montana

S3B Vulnerable (breeding)

NE

S3 Vulnerable

Indiana

S3 Vulnerable

Wyoming

S3B Vulnerable (breeding)

West Virginia

S3 Vulnerable

Wisconsin

S3 Vulnerable

Kentucky

S5 Secure

South Dakota

S5 Secure

District of Columbia

S4 Apparently Secure

Illinois

S5 Secure

New York

S3B Vulnerable (breeding)

Iowa

S4 Apparently Secure

Missouri

S4 Apparently Secure

Maryland

S3 Vulnerable

Arkansas

S5 Secure

Alabama

S5 Secure

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

• Barr, T.C., Jr. & Kuehne, R.A. 1971. Ecological studies in the Mammoth Cave system of Kentucky. II. The Ecosystem. Annales de Speleologie 26: 47–96. doi:10.5038/1827-806X.3.1.10
• Cassidy, J.J., O'Hagan, G.G., Sanders, J.S. & Harvey, M.J. 1979. Swarming of bats at two southern Ozark caves. Proceedings of the Tennessee Academy of Science 54: 73.
• Heath, D.R., Saugey, D.A. & Heidt, G.A. 1986. Abandoned mine fauna of the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas: vertebrate taxa. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 40: 33–36.
• Linzey, D.W. 1995. Mammals of Great Smoky Mountains National Park - 1995 update. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 111: 1–81.
• Linzey, D.W. 2016. Mammals of Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 2016 revision. Southeastern Naturalist 15, Monograph 8: 1–93.
• McDaniel, V.R. & Gardner, J.E. 1977. Cave fauna of Arkansas: vertebrate taxa. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 31: 68–71. https://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas/vol31/iss1/22.
• Zigler, K.S., Niemiller, M.L., Stephen, C.D.R., Ayala, B.N., Milne, M.A., Gladstone, N.S., Engel, A.S., Jensen, J.B., Camp, C.D., Ozier, J.C. & Cressler, A. 2020. Biodiversity from caves and other subterranean habitats of Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 125–167. doi:10.4311/2019LSC0125

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