Thanks, Jim. It's enlightening to know that both are correct but I prefer the 
more commonly used Mexican.

Fritz

________________________________
From: Jim Kennedy [mailto:jkenn...@batcon.org]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 3:04 PM
To: Fritz Holt
Cc: Nico Escamilla; jerryat...@aol.com; Texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: Re: free-tailed bats


Our common free-tailed bat is _Tadarida brasiliensis_, subspecies _mexicana_.  
So it is perfectly acceptable to use either the species or subspecies epithet 
as a common name.

Jim (currently in Elizabethtown, KY)

On Jul 26, 2010, at 2:40 PM, "Fritz Holt" 
<fh...@townandcountryins.com<mailto:fh...@townandcountryins.com>> wrote:
I have seen them referred to as Brazilian free-tailed bats in other written 
material and wondered if they were mistaken and should have said Mexican or are 
there two distinct varieties of free-tailed bats? What's the answer, Jim?

Fritz

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From: Nico Escamilla [mailto:pitboun...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 12:26 PM
To: <mailto:jerryat...@aol.com> jerryat...@aol.com<mailto:jerryat...@aol.com>
Cc: <mailto:Texascavers@texascavers.com> 
Texascavers@texascavers.com<mailto:Texascavers@texascavers.com>
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Another LeBlanc article on caving : Kickapoo Cavern 
SP :

Seems like bats no longer want to be Mexican and they turned Brasilian, LOL
must be all the violence going on :-P
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:08 PM, 
<<mailto:jerryat...@aol.com>jerryat...@aol.com<mailto:jerryat...@aol.com>> 
wrote:
Into the dark: Spelunk in the raw abyss of Kickapoo Cavern
By Pamela 
LeBlanc<http://www.austin360.com/recreation/into-the-dark-822622.html?service=popup&authorContact=822622&authorContactField=0>

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Updated: 7:24 p.m. Sunday, July 25, 2010

Published: 5:07 p.m. Sunday, July 25, 2010


Besides the wild cave tours, which are offered by reservation only on 
Saturdays, the park is known for its bat population. From April through 
September, a colony of more than half a million Brazilian free-tailed bats 
swoops out of Stuart Bat Cave, which is slightly smaller than Kickapoo Cavern, 
on a nightly mission to feast on insects.

<http://www.austin360.com/recreation/into-the-dark-822622.html>http://www.austin360.com/recreation/into-the-dark-822622.html

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