Myotis longipes

(Dobson, 1873)

Kashmir Cave 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

Dobson, G.E. 1873. On the Genera Murina and Harpyiocephalus of Gray. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1873:107-110.

Original name as described

Vespertilio longipes

Other common names

Kashmir Cave Bat

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1876.3.10.4, ZSI 15588

Type kind

syntypes

Type locality

"caves of Bhima Devi, in Kashmir [India], at an elevation of 6000 feet [= 1829 m]."

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya · Palearctic

Country distribution

Afghanistan · Pakistan · India · Nepal · China? · Laos?

Taxonomy notes

includes csorbai 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

Not Evaluated

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