Order Chiroptera Author Karl F. Koopman text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 137 241 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353060 54c9783b-6624-4034-96d9-d09afe43b319 1-56098-217-9 7353060 Scotophilus borbonicus (E. Geoffroy, 1803) . Ann. Mus . Hist. Nat. Paris, 8:201 . TYPE LOCALITY: Reunion Isl ( France ) . DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar , Reunion Isl (Mascarene Isis). Records from Mauritius (Mascarene Isis) are erroneous, see Cheke and Dahl (1981) . STATUS: May be extinct; see Cheke and Dahl (1981:217) . COMMENTS: Included equivocally in leucogaster by Hayman and Hill (1971:50-51) ; but see Koopman (1975:414-416) . Hill (1980b) considered African viridis and damarensis , and possibly leucogaster to be conspecific with borbonicus , but C. B. Robbins et al. (1985) rejected any affinity with African mainland species. Also see comment under leucogaster . Koopman (1986) , included viridis , damarensis , and nigritellus (but not leucogaster ) in this species.