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UNTIL 1940 it was generally thought that there was but one species of long-eared bat in Europe—namely, Plecotus auritus L. However, between 1940 and 1960 several European bat workers described, quite independently, a new sub-species of this bat. In 1960 Bauer, an Austrian, came to the conclusion that these various descriptions referred, in fact, to a distinct species for which the prior name is Plecotus austriacus (Fischer 1829). Since then this new species has been recorded from the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Italy, Corsica, Russia, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
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STEBBINGS, R. Plecotus austriacus in Dorset. Nature 206, 314–315 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/206314a0
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