Myotis emarginatus

(É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1806)

Geoffroy's Myotis

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Vespertilioniformes
Superfamily : Vespertilionoidea
Family : Vespertilionidae
Subfamily : Myotinae
Genus : Myotis
Subgenus : Chrysopteron

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. 1806. Mémoire sur le genre et les espèces de Vespertilion, l'un des genres de la famille des chauve-souris. Annales du Muséum d'histoire naturelle 8:187-205.

Original name as described

Vespertilio emarginatus

Other common names

Geoffroy's Bat

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1997-1819

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

"les souterrains des fortifications de Charlemont [= tunnels in the Fort of Charlemont]," Givet, Ardennes, northern France.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Morocco · Algeria · Tunisia · Portugal · Spain · France · Belgium · Luxembourg · Netherlands · Germany · Switzerland · Austria · Italy · Czech Republic · Slovakia · Poland · Hungary · Slovenia · Croatia · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Serbia · Kosovo · Montenegro · North Macedonia · Albania · Greece · Bulgaria · Romania · Moldova · Ukraine · Russia · Georgia · Armenia · Azerbaijan · Turkey · Cyprus · Syria · Lebanon · Israel · Palestine · Jordan · Iraq · Iran · Turkmenistan · Uzbekistan · Kazakhstan · Tajikistan · Kyrgyzstan · Afghanistan

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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