Guide for Acoustic Identification of Florida bats


Family

Vespertilionidae

Database species code

Lasint or Lain

See glossary for explanation of codes

Scientific name

Lasiurus intermedius H. Allen, 1862

Taxonomy follows Simmons and Cirranello (2021)

Call shape

To view call graphics click on the camera icon on the right. You can then move through all images by using the left or right arrow keys. A left mouse click returns to the fact sheet.

Typical North American Vespertilionid pulses with FM reversed J broadband pulses of short duration.  However, distinctive for the genus Lasiurus the Fmin shifts up and down. Note that commute calls are longer duration, have a lower frequency and are narrow band.

Vocal signature parameters
Parameters   N Min Max Mean St.Dev 10% 25% 75% 90%
Dur 2711 2.00 16.69 5.74 2.72 2.64 3.53 7.47 9.73
TBC 2589 2.3 11104.8   327.8 744.1 55.1 111.0 275.0 483.2
Fmin 2711 26.02 34.93 30.37 2.04 27.73 28.73 31.94 33.20
Fmax 2711 28.07 50.00 36.98 4.74 31.19 33.26 39.80 43.60
BW 2711 0.16 20.69 6.61 3.93 2.26 3.68 8.84 11.99
Fmean 2711 26.76 37.97 32.15 2.33 29.14 30.23 33.96 35.34
Fk 2711 27.03 40.10 32.99 2.37 29.91 31.07 34.78 36.20
FcH1 2711 13.05 18.92 15.40 1.06 14.06 14.55 16.16 16.84
Fc 2711 26.10 37.83 30.80 2.12 28.12 29.09 32.32 33.68
FcH3 2711 39.15 56.75 46.20 3.18 42.18 43.64 48.48 50.52
Sc 2711 -31.75 206.78 37.31 21.01 15.71 22.48 47.96 66.01
Pmc 2711 0.00 74.00 20.04 12.93 5.80 10.20 27.20 38.40

 

Reported by Szewczak (2018)

Lasint Fc Fmax Fmin FmaxE dur uppr slp lwr slp slp @ Fc total slp
Mean 28.4 45.5 27.9 29.4 10.5 4.9 0.9 0.1 1.9
Max 30.0 53.0 29.0 32.0 13.0 7.3 1.4 0.3 2.9
Min 27.0 38.0 26.0 27.0 8.3 2.4 0.4 0.0 0.9

 

Source of acoustic data

Bruce Miller

Reference calls recorded by Miller are being archived at BioAcoustica and will be freely available. See Baker et al., (2015).

Known counties of distribution
  • Alachua
  • Baker
  • Bay
  • Bradford
  • Brevard
  • Broward
  • Calhoun
  • Charlotte
  • Citrus
  • Clay
  • Collier
  • Columbia
  • De Soto
  • Dixie
  • Duval
  • Escambia
  • Flagler
  • Franklin
  • Gadsden
  • Gilchrist
  • Glades
  • Gulf
  • Hamilton
  • Hardee
  • Hendry
  • Hernando
  • Highlands
  • Hillsborough
  • Holmes
  • Indian River
  • Jackson
  • Jefferson
  • Lafayette
  • Lake
  • Lee
  • Leon
  • Levy
  • Liberty
  • Madison
  • Manatee
  • Marion
  • Martin
  • Miami-Dade
  • Monroe
  • Nassau
  • Okaloosa
  • Okeechobee
  • Orange
  • Osceola
  • Palm Beach
  • Pasco
  • Pinellas
  • Polk
  • Putnam
  • Santa Rosa
  • Sarasota
  • Seminole
  • St. Johns
  • St. Lucie
  • Sumter
  • Suwannee
  • Taylor
  • Union
  • Volusia
  • Wakulla
  • Walton
  • Washington
    Conservation status

    Least concern; Ver.3.1 ; Population trend - unknown; evaluated 2016. (I.U.C.N. 2017.)

    Notes

    Baird et al. (2015) appeared to make a strong case of separating the genus Lasiurus into 3 genera; proposing that the genus name Lasiurus be restricted to red bats, Dasypterus be used as the genus name for yellow bats, and hoary bats plus L. egregius (which appears more closely related to hoary bats than to red bats) be reassigned to the genus Aeorestes.

     

    However, Ziegler et al. (2016) stated "That there was insufficient justification for changing the well-established zoological nomenclature for these bats, and any potential value of applying different generic names to the three clades is far outweighed by the confusion that these name changes will cause.” Therefore, the classical nomenclature for the genus is maintained in these Fact Sheets and carried over to the Interactive ID keys to the vocal signatures of the Lasiurines.

     

    See Baker et. al., (2015) for discussion of BioAcoustica and Baker and Vincent (2019) for a critique of the lack of freely available acoustic data.

    Citations

    Baird, A. B., et al. 2015. Molecular systematic revision of tree bats (Lasiurini): doubling the native mammals of the Hawaiian Islands. Journal of Mammalogy 96:1255-1274.

     

    Baker, E., B. W. Price, S. D. Rycroft, J. Hill, and V. S. Smith. 2015. BioAcoustica: a free and open repository and analysis platform for bioacoustics. Database. 2015. bav054

     

    Baker, E., and S. Vincent. 2019. A deafening silence: a lack of data and reproducibility in published bioacoustics research? Biodiversity Data Journal 7: e36783.

     

    Marks, C. S., and G. E. Marks. 2006. Bats of Florida. Pp. 176. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.

     

    Simmons, N. B., and A. L. Cirranello. 2020. Bat Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic database. http://batnames.org

     

    Szewczak, J. M. 2018. Echolocation Call Characteristics of Eastern U.S. Bats. Echolocation call characteristics of Eastern U.S. Bats. Unpublished report.

     

    The IUCN 2017. Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2017-1.www.iucnredlist.org;. Downloaded on August 6, 2017.

     

    Ziegler, A. C., F. G. Howarth, and N. B. Simmons. 2016. A second endemic land mammal for the Hawaiian Islands: a new genus and species of fossil bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). American Museum Novitates. 3854: 1-52.

    Guide for Acoustic Identification of Florida bats 2021, all rights reserved.