Myotis diminutus
Moratelli & D. E. Wilson, 2011
Diminutive Myotis
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Chiroptera |
| Suborder | : Vespertilioniformes |
| Superfamily | : Vespertilionoidea |
| Family | : Vespertilionidae |
| Subfamily | : Myotinae |
| Genus | : Myotis |
| Subgenus | : Pizonyx |
Species status
Living
Found in the wild
Authority citation
Moratelli, R. and Wilson, D.E. 2011-09. A new species of Myotis Kaup, 1829 (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) from Ecuador. Mammalian Biology 76(5):608-614.
Authority publication link
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2010.10.003Original name as described
Myotis diminutus
Other common names
Diminutive Bat
Type material
USNM:MAMM:528569
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/373f32af6-c2d7-4c3f-b83c-d5c7bab8d1d3Type locality
"Río Palenque Science Center (0°35'11"S, 79°21'53"W), 47 Km S (by road) from Santo Domingo, Los Rios, Ecuador, elevation ca. 150 m."
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Colombia · Ecuador
Taxonomy notes
recently described
Taxonomy notes citation
Moratelli, R., & Wilson, D. E. (2011). A new species of Myotis Kaup, 1829 (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) from Ecuador. Mammalian Biology, 76(5), 608-614.
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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