Eptesicus fuscus (Beauvois, 1796)

The big brown bat is known in Alaska from one specimen collected near Big Delta (Reeder,1965). The specimen is number 111,095 at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. The report of this species in southeast Alaska by Manville and Young (1965) has not been verified (Parker et al., 1997).

Species diagnosis

General Characteristics

• Skull with 32 teeth

Literature cited

• Manville, R. H., and S. P. Young, 1965. Distribution of Alaskan Mammals. Circular 211, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Washington, D.C.
• Parker, D. I., B. E. Lawhead, and J. A. Cook, 1997. Distributional limits of bats in Alaska. Arctic, 50:256-265.
• Reeder, W. G., 1965. Occurrence of the big brown bat in southwestern Alaska. Journal of Mammalogy, 46:332-333.