Myotis laniger

(W. C. H. Peters in Swinhoe, 1871)

Chinese Water Myotis

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Swinhoe, R. 1871-04. Catalogue of the mammals of China (south of the river Yangtsze) and of the island of Formosa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1870(3):615-653.

Original name as described

Vespertilio laniger

Other common names

Chinese Water Bat · Chinese Myotis · Indochinese Myotis

Type material

ZMB 4146

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

Amoy, Fujian, China.

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

India · China · Laos · Vietnam · Taiwan

Taxonomy notes

includes annamiticus based on low molecular divergence

Taxonomy notes citation

Ruedi, M., Saikia, U., Thabah, A., Görföl, T., Thapa, S., & Csorba, G. (2021). Molecular and morphological revision of small Myotinae from the Himalayas shed new light on the poorly known genus Submyotodon (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Mammalian Biology, 101(4), 465-480. · Csorba, G., & Furey, N. M. (2022). From greener times: a new species of Thick-thumbed Myotis from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 68(1), 85-97. · Liu, T., Jia, J., Liu, L., Wang, J., Chen, W., Miao, G., ... & Feng, J. (2023). New Insights into the Taxonomy of Myotis Bats in China Based on Morphology and Multilocus Phylogeny. Diversity, 15(7), 805.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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