A New Name for the Mexican Red Bat

"A New Name for the Mexican Red Bat" by E. Raymond Hall is a scientific work from the 1950s that sorts out the naming of bat species. The publication zeroes in on the Mexican red bat and the big questions about how it should be classified. It looks at how the naming happened in the past and how this bat fits into the Vespertilionidae family, which is all about bats. Hall checks over what Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. said before and spots some differences because some Mexican bat species live in the same areas. Hall thinks the name "A[talapha]. mexicana" was used for the wrong bat and should really be for the hoary bat. So, he suggests a different name, "Lasiurus borealis ornatus", for the Mexican red bat. The work describes the bats in detail and compares them to other similar bats. This underscores how important it is to get the scientific names exactly right as there is an importance to understanding all what biodiversity is about.