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 Eptesicus fuscus (Beauvois, 1796) . Cat. Raisonne Mus . Peale Philadelphia , p. 18 . TYPE LOCALITY: USA , Pennsylvania , Philadelphia . DISTRIBUTION: S Canada to Colombia and N Brazil ; Greater Antilles; Bahamas ; Dominica and Barbados (Lesser Antilles); perhaps Alaska. SYNONYMS: arquatus, bahamensis , bernardinus, carolinensis, cubensis, dutertreus , hispaniolae , lynni , melanops ; melanopterus Rehn ; miradorensis , osceola, pallidus , peninsulae, pelliceus, petersoni , phaiops, ursinus , wetmorei . COMMENTS: Subgenus Eptesicus . Closely similar to serotinus with which it may be conspecific. Includes lynni , see Koopman (1989c) . See Kurta and Baker (1990 , Mammalian Species, 356).