Talk:Nyctophilus geoffroyi

problems with bat phylogeny in this article
The monophyly of yinpterochiroptera and yangochiroptera is now well-supported. Bats probably evolved flight and echolocation once, and most old-world fruit bats secondarily lost echolocation. This article should be updated to reflect that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.46.49.81 (talk) 18:35, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 26 January 2019

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 03:39, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

Lesser long-eared bat → Nyctophilus geoffroyi – The current name is merely a legacy of descriptions for several species of the 'longeeared bat' genus, now understand to be highly diverse. The relevant article criteria are: test 1: as title
 * Recognizability, species is only recognised this way.
 * Naturalness, accepted within the regulated and verifiable system that reliable sources use to describe organisms [in the natural world]
 * Precision , the scope of the article is the species, not the genus or subspecies. Not about a smaller flying fox with large ears either, precise enough.
 * Conciseness

Lesser long-eared bat Nyctophilus geoffroyi Same length in monotype, same number of characters test 2: as inline text

Lesser long-eared bat N. geoffroyi Shorter, less awkward, especially when I get to the subspecies, Consistency with well established and consistent taxonomic citations used by properly sourced publications and everyone else. Consistent with usage at all language and sister sites, in attribution if not name, becoming more consistent as article titles here. Consistent with core policies. cygnis insignis 15:39, 26 January 2019 (UTC) --Relisting.  SITH   (talk)   23:28, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Support Vernacular names isn't really more commonly used than scientific name. It's high past time Wikipedia (with it's requirement for unique strings as titles) gives up deprecating the system that has worked for scientists for 250+ years. Redirects will take anybody searching for a vernacular name to a scientifically titled article just fine. Plantdrew (talk) 18:03, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Especially bats. Sue Churchill, a key researcher on Australian chiropterans, said something like, 'bats don't really have common names, they are not commonly known'. There are were some placeholder 'common names', a curiosity as the systematics of Australian genera were resolved, many are unrepeatable in polite company. cygnis insignis 23:04, 7 February 2019 (UTC)


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