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 Otonycteris hemprichi Peters, 1859 . Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin , 1859:223 . TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt , Nile Valley south of Assuan ( Aswan ) . DISTRIBUTION: The desert zone from Morocco and Niger through Egypt and Arabia to Tadzhikistan , Afghanistan , and Kashmir. SYNONYMS: cinerea , jin , leucophaeus , petersi , saharae.