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
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.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28555479Original 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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