FIELDIANA ^^^!?";°f Zoology ^^'''' Published by Field Museum of Natural History Volume 58, No. 3 " August 13, 1971 New Distributional Records of Bats from Iran Anthony F. DeBlase Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago ABSTRACT New range extensions of species of bats into, and within, Iran are reported including: first records of Taphozous perforatus and Tadarida aegyptiaca; second records of Myotis capaccinii, M. nattereri, Pipistrellus savii, Eptesicus nasutus, and Vespp.rtilio murinus; and a third specimen of Tadarida teniotis. Of the 35 species of bats reported to date from Iran only one, Pipistrellus kuhli, has been reported from more than 12 locations. Ten of the 35 species have been reported from only one location. The 1968 W. S. and J. K. Street Expedition to Iran, co-sponsored by Field Museum of Natural History and the Iran Department of Game and Fish, made a particular effort to collect bats. From July to December, 1968 we searched in various selected localities in mountainous western Iran from Maku in the northwestern corner to Minab in south-central Iran. Our efforts produced a total of 610 bat specimens of 25 species from 39 localities. Of these, two are new to the faunal list of Iran and several others provide second or third records and/or major range extensions. In order to make these major records available promptly to other workers, I present the following list. Detailed studies of Iranian mammals, including Chiroptera, resulting from the collections and field observations of this expedition are in preparation. All new specimens mentioned below are in the collections of Field Museum of Natural History. Spellings of place names and co-ordinates are as given in Lay (1967, pp. 243-261) or in the U. S. Board on Geographic Names Gazetteer 19, Iran (1956) published by the U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Place names not appearing in either of these publications are spelled as they appeared in the Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 71-157380 Publication 1129 9
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