First records of bats from four Dodecanese islands, Greece (Chiroptera)

Abstract

Bats of four islands of the Dodecanese Archipelago (Astypalea, Kalymnos, Symi, Megisti) were studied for the first time. The bat fauna of these islands comprises eleven species and the faunas of the particular islands are composed of five (on Astypalea) to nine (on Symi) species. Three species of bats, Rhinolophus blasii , Pipistrellus pipistrellus and P. kuhlii , were found in all four islands, two species, Hypsugo savii and Tadarida teniotis in three islands, and Eptesicus anatolicus and Plecotus kolombatovici in two islands. The remaining four species, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum , Myotis blythii , M. emarginatus , and Miniopterus schreibersii , are known from only one island each.