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Hesperoptenus gaskelli
Gaskell's false serotine bat
Gaskell's false serotine bat (Hesperoptenus gaskelli) is known only from a single specimen collected in east-central coastal Sulawesi (Sulawesi Tengah province).
Status Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List Restriction tier 5, type locality or a single collection Class Mammalia Realm Indo-Malaysian Locality not specified in the source As IUCN records it Hesperoptenus gaskelli Hill, 1983 This species is one of 3,062 in a list of vertebrates the IUCN Red List records as Data Deficient or has never assessed, ranked by how narrowly restricted the published record says they are. The sentence above is the evidence the tier was read from, quoted from Matthew Richardson, Threatened and Recently Extinct Vertebrates of the World (2023).
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