You could ask Jeroen van der Kooij ([email protected]), he is highly skilled in bat identification and have written guides about cranial identification on small mammals. 

Thank you Ronny

Good morning Paulo,

You might have a look at the following publications:

Turni, H. (1999).  Schlüssel für die Bestimmung von in Deutschland vorkommenden Säugetierschädeln aus Eulengewöllen (Mammalia). - Zool. Abh. Mus. Tierk. Dresden, 50 (20): 352 - 399.

Toschi, A., Lanza, B. (1959).  Fauna d'Italia: Mammalia - Generalità - Insectivora - Chiroptera. - Edizione Calderini. Bologna: 485 pp. (They provide a key based on external characters and one on internal characters.)

Zalman, J. (1971).  Diagnostische Merkmale an der Schutterblattern. - Vĕstn. čs. Společ. zool., 35 (4): 311 - 319. (This is a key based on shoulderblades, which, I think, might also be present in pellets.)

Pierallini, R., Keller, A., Moretti, M. (2004).  Chiave di determinazione dei Chirotteri (Mammalia) della Svizzera attraverso l'osservazione al microscopio ottico della struttura dei peli. - Rev. suisse Zool., 111 (2): 381 - 393. (This key is based on hair characters.)

Yours,

Victor

P.S.: If you like, I can send you copies of these

Thank you Victor, I would be grateful if you send me canopy of copies of these. Please send to [email protected]

Hi Paulo!

You can also find some information and good sketches here: Gallego, L., López, S. 1991. Mamíferos, Quirópteros. In: Vertebrados Ibéricos. Vol 7. Bilbilis (Eds) Palma de

Mallorca, Spain.

We used it in our short-note about predation upon bats by Genetta genetta : )

Hei I would be grateful if you or Victor could send me a copy of these previous references ([email protected]). Thanks in advance!

Hope it is useful for your research! Are you going to SECEMU Conferences this weekend?

Abraços!!

Adrià

Hi Paulo,

You can also find some information about tooth morphology in:

Sevilla, 1986. Identificación de los principales quirópteros ibéricos a partir de sus dientes aislados. Valor sistemático de los caracteres morfológicos y

métricos dentarios. Doñana Acta Vertebrata, 13: 111-130

Best regards,

Óscar

Hello Paulo,

You should see the contributions of paleontologists. Having only bones when fossilized, we clasiffy  the taxa  studying bones and teeth. I suggest you the works of Wilson 2008 (Miniopterus), Giannini, Horacek, Alcover, Paloma Sevilla, Julia Galan, Juan Manuel López-García and myself (you have some of my contributions and the majority of my colleagues here cited in Research Gate) .

Best, 

Gloria

Thank you, Adrià, Oscar and Gloria.

Yes, Adrià I will go to SECEMU Conferences this weekend.

Would be interesting propose to SECEMU create a Iberian bat identification key based on cranial characters, most part are either old or don’t have all the species. The key that I use is Paz & Benzal, 1990 and Palmeirin, 1990.

Hello,

there is a good book, but it is in german.

Joachim Jenrich, Paul-Walter Löhr, Franz Müller, Henning Vierhaus 2012

http://www.amazon.de/Flederm%C3%A4use-Bildbestimmungsschl%C3%BCssel-anhand-von-Sch%C3%A4delmerkmalen/dp/386568808X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417722358&sr=8-1&keywords=Flederm%C3%A4use+-+Bestimmungsschl%C3%BCssel+anhand+von+Sch%C3%A4delmerkmalen

Thank you Marcus, looks very interesting.

You can see this useful publication:

Dodelin B. 2002. Identification des Chiroptères de France à partir de restes osseux. Fédération Française de Spéléologie, La Ravoire : Gap ed., 48 p.

Best wishes.

Marco Riccucci

Hi. 

There is a good key for bat identification by some external and dental characters in:

DIETZ, C., O. von HELVERSEN & D. NILL (2009). Bats of Britain, Europe & Northwest Africa. A & C Black. London. 400 pp. 

Hi again.

A good source for this is:

SCHOBER, W. & E. GRIMMBERGER (1998). Die Fledermäuse Europas. Kosmos. Stuttgart. 265 pp. 

In the pages 214-226 there is a useful key based on dental and skull characters, with nice drawings of many skulls and mandibles. In any case, some recently described species are not included. 

Thank you Marco aand Rubén.

There is an additional book available concerning identification of European Bat species by cranial features: "Fledermäuse - Bildbestimmungsschlüssel anhand von Schädelmerkmalen" by J.Jenrich, P.-W.Löhr, F.Müller & H.Vierhaus (authors). Edited by VNO, Michael Imhof Verlag, D-36100 Petersberg

ISSN 0342-5452

ISBN 978-3-86568-808-8

I just received the book today. It seems great!

Gloria

Hi again.

I found another interesting source about it, restricted to the Iberian Peninsula:

NORES, C. (1978). Clave para la identificación de cráneos de los mamíferos ibéricos (excluidos los marinos). Universidad de Oviedo, Servicio de Publicaciones. 71 pp.

It's some old and the taxonomy has changed in many cases, but may be useful...

Thank's Rubén

Paulo: What Ernst-Hermann Solmsen advised is a good table, but Escalarai and Isabellinus doesn't stay in it. The new table in Dietz and Kiefer is also good, I think (but until now only in German, there is comming a English version of it!

Yes René the "Fledermäuse - Bildbestimmungsschlüssel anhand von Schädelmerkmalen" by Jenrich is very good, I already buy and It has been very useful for me

Hi again.

This summer I have seen in Italy the next excellent book on Italian bats:

LANZA, B. (2012). Fauna d'Italia, Vol. 47: Mammalia V, Chiroptera. Ed. Calderini. Bologna. 786 pp. 

It's a revised and up-to-date version of the monograph published by the same author in 1959, with very nice and useful drawings and photos, including skulls. 

Thank you Rubén, looks very interesting!

Another very useful book:

Naturführer Fledermäuse Europas: Alle Arten erkennen und sicher bestimmengiu. 2014, Christian Dietz and Kiefer Andreas

Italian and French versions already available , the English one is expected for January 2016

Thank you Marco!

Hi again.

I can confirm that the book of LANZA (2012) is excellent in many ways, as I have obtained it very recently, thanks to the great kindness of the author during a recent visit to his home at Florence, Italy. Apart from a scholar and extended text on different topics about bats in general, the information on the Italian taxa is very detailed, also useful for the whole Europe. In this context, all the species of bats considered in the book have very nice and accurate illustrations of their skulls. So, this is really a good guide for the identification of these animals using cranial characters. 

 Thank's Rúben!

I can endorse what Rùben said, Lanza is the best book!

Hi again.

It may be good to check also this very recent book:

DIETZ, C., D. NILL & O. von HELVERSEN (2016). Handbuch der Fledermäuse. Europa und Nordwestafrika. Kosmos-Naturführer. Kosmos. Stuttgart. 416 pp.

It's a very fine book, an updated edition of the first one, published in 2007 in German and in 2009 and 2011 in English. 

Best regards. 

Thank you Rubén

Dietz et al is indeed a fine book!

Hi Pauli, I agree Dietz is a very good starting point. The mammal society also produced a good book called which bat is it? Which has  

Hi Colin

I don't know this book, can you send me the reference please.

Thank you

This book will be soon available in Spanish as well.

See http://secemu.org/la-guia-murcielagos-europa-traducida-al-espanol/ 

Marco