taxonID	type	description	language	source
7B6387F2FFCAD10A798CFBEB914047C0.taxon	description	The present locality of this species is one of the southernmost on the Balkan Peninsula and demonstrates its wider occurrence in the region, where it has previously been considered to be very local and rare (Paunović et al. 2003). Its nearest previously known localities are in eastern Macedonia (Kryštufek and Petkovski 2003) and central Greece (Hanák et al. 2001). Barbastella barbastellus has been recorded in all of the Balkan countries (Paunović et al. 2003; Pavlinić et al. 2010; Pašić et al. 2013), including Montenegro (A. Rachwald, unpubl. data).	en	Sachanowicz, Konrad, Ciechanowski, Mateusz, Rachwald, Alek, Piskorski, Michał (2015): Overview of bat species reported in Albania with the first country records for eight species. Journal of Natural History 50: 513-521, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962
7B6387F2FFCAD10A7A61FD0F975541F1.taxon	discussion	Jermë (39 ° 49.671 ʹ N, 20 ° 06.872 ʹ E, 56 m above sea level (a. s. l )), 3 May 2010, 1 pregnant ♀ and 1 ♂ ad. harp-trapped inside abandoned military tunnels. In total, 5 – 10 individuals were observed near a colony of R. euryale. These records demonstrate that R. mehelyi is a breeding species in Albania.	en	Sachanowicz, Konrad, Ciechanowski, Mateusz, Rachwald, Alek, Piskorski, Michał (2015): Overview of bat species reported in Albania with the first country records for eight species. Journal of Natural History 50: 513-521, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962
7B6387F2FFCAD10A7A61FD0F975541F1.taxon	description	This is the only known locality of this rarely recorded species in the western Balkans north of central Greece (Hanák et al. 2001). Eastwards, the nearest known localities are in eastern Serbia (Paunović et al. 1998) and northern Macedonia (Kryštufek et al. 1992).	en	Sachanowicz, Konrad, Ciechanowski, Mateusz, Rachwald, Alek, Piskorski, Michał (2015): Overview of bat species reported in Albania with the first country records for eight species. Journal of Natural History 50: 513-521, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962
7B6387F2FFCAD10D7A6BF9DC92554310.taxon	description	(Continued) No previous record of Pl. austriacus (Lamani 1970) has been sufficiently documented to confirm the identification of this species (Sachanowicz and Ciechanowski 2006) and exclude a similar, newly recognized species, Pl. macrobullaris (Spitzenberger et al. 2006; Dietz et al. 2009).	en	Sachanowicz, Konrad, Ciechanowski, Mateusz, Rachwald, Alek, Piskorski, Michał (2015): Overview of bat species reported in Albania with the first country records for eight species. Journal of Natural History 50: 513-521, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962
7B6387F2FFCDD10D7A43FC03909146B8.taxon	description	This locality is one of the southernmost in the western Balkans. Myotis brandtii was previously recorded at two sites in Montenegro (Benda 2004) and, recently, also near the border with Albania in the north of Greece (Papadatou et al. 2011).	en	Sachanowicz, Konrad, Ciechanowski, Mateusz, Rachwald, Alek, Piskorski, Michał (2015): Overview of bat species reported in Albania with the first country records for eight species. Journal of Natural History 50: 513-521, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962
7B6387F2FFCDD10D7A50FB2492EC47F9.taxon	description	Due to the discovery of M. alcathoe (von Helversen et al. 2001; Dietz et al. 2009) and the lack of any morphological details allowing for species identification, the only previous record of M. mystacinus (Uhrin et al. 1996) may have been either M. mystacinus sensu stricto or M. alcathoe.	en	Sachanowicz, Konrad, Ciechanowski, Mateusz, Rachwald, Alek, Piskorski, Michał (2015): Overview of bat species reported in Albania with the first country records for eight species. Journal of Natural History 50: 513-521, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962
7B6387F2FFCDD10D7A73FE8C91AF4199.taxon	description	The two records of bats from the genus Plecotus (Lamani 1970) could not be assigned to any particular species because of the lack of a detailed description and measurements. For the supposed Pl. kolombatovici record from the Treni Cave, at the Micro Prespa Lake in Albania (24 – 25 September 2012), no evidence has been provided to support the species identification and exclusion of other Plecotus species (Scheffler et al. 2013). Plecotus kolombatovici has one of the smallest geographic ranges among the European bats; it has only been confirmed in Greece and along the Adriatic coast of Croatia (Đulić 1980; Spitzenberger et al. 2006). The supposed records from Bosnia and Herzegovina are based on external and cranial measurements (Đulić 1980; Červený and Kryštufek 1988) and apparently require confirmation with genetic methods. This new Albanian record indicates a wider occurrence of this species in the southwestern Balkans and its syntopic presence with Pl. austriacus.	en	Sachanowicz, Konrad, Ciechanowski, Mateusz, Rachwald, Alek, Piskorski, Michał (2015): Overview of bat species reported in Albania with the first country records for eight species. Journal of Natural History 50: 513-521, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962
7B6387F2FFCDD10E7A65F9E39713432F.taxon	description	This record fills the large gap in the distribution of this rarely recorded species in the western Balkans, where it was previously recorded only in Croatia (Kovač et al. 2011) and Greece (Hanák et al. 2001). As N. lasiopterus depends strongly on old hollow trees for roosting (Estók et al. 2007), it may be restricted to difficult-to-access mountain locations in Albania due to the heavy deforestation of lowland areas (Habili et al. 1997).	en	Sachanowicz, Konrad, Ciechanowski, Mateusz, Rachwald, Alek, Piskorski, Michał (2015): Overview of bat species reported in Albania with the first country records for eight species. Journal of Natural History 50: 513-521, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962
7B6387F2FFCED10E7A77FEA990734773.taxon	description	Due to the separation of P. pipistrellus and P. pygmaeus (Barratt et al. 1997; Dietz et al. 2009) and the lack of any characters allowing for species identification, the only previous record (Uhrin et al. 1996) has to be assigned to P. pipistrellus sensu lato (Sachanowicz et al. 2006). Although scarcely known until 2003 (21 species and unidentified representatives of three species complexes), the bat fauna of Albania is presently adequately surveyed with 32 recorded species. Our research has confirmed that Albania is one of the European countries with the highest bat species richness. In the geographic Balkans, where 35 bat species are known (Dietz and Kiefer 2014), a greater or equal number of species has only been recorded in Bulgaria with 33 species if an acoustic record of Myotis dasycneme (Boie, 1825) over the Danube river is included (Benda et al. 2003; Mayer et al. 2007; Niermann et al. 2007) and continental Greece with 32 species (Hanák et al. 2001; Mayer et al. 2007). For two of the rarest European bats, R. mehelyi and N. lasiopterus, but also for M. brandtii, Pl. kolombatovici and B. barbastellus, we greatly extended their known geographic ranges in the south of Europe (Dietz et al. 2009). The previous record of M. nattereri in Albania (Chytil and Vlašín 1994) was most probably of this species, which is the only representative of the M. nattereri complex confirmed in the Balkans so far (Salicini et al. 2013). Of the two Balkan species not recorded in Albania, Eptesicus nilssonii is only known from single localities in Bulgaria (Benda et al. 2003) and Croatia (Pavlinić and Tvrtković 2003) whereas the known range of M. aurascens (sensu Mayer et al. 2007) covers only a small area of northeast Bulgaria and extends to Romania, Ukraine and Russia (Dietz and Kiefer 2014).	en	Sachanowicz, Konrad, Ciechanowski, Mateusz, Rachwald, Alek, Piskorski, Michał (2015): Overview of bat species reported in Albania with the first country records for eight species. Journal of Natural History 50: 513-521, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1059962
