Myotis occultus

Hollister, 1909

Arizona 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
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Hollister, N. 1909-03-10. Two new bats from the southwestern United States. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 22:43-44.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3329907

Original name as described

Myotis occultus

Type material

USNM:MAMM:137098

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/32bef994c-c144-4b9f-aa9e-4c4f1c7c46a8

Type locality

"west side of Colorado River ten miles [= 16 km] above Needles, California," USA.

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic

Country distribution

United States · Mexico

Subregion distribution

USA(CO,AZ,NM,CA,TX)

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005449

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Myotis occultus

Hollister, 1909

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

occultus

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

USNM:MAMM:137098

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/32bef994c-c144-4b9f-aa9e-4c4f1c7c46a8

Authority page

43

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3329907

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:65) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  3. Bradley, Ammerman, Baker, Bradley, Cook, Dowler, Jones, Schmidly, Stangl, Van Den Bussche & Würsig (2014:11, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57785987) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19157)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #136650) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #136650) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  6. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:929) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005449) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  8. Schmidly, Bradley, Yancey & Bradley (2024:16) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67259)
  9. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/136650/21990499) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Myotis lucifugus occultus

S. Anderson, 1972

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

occultus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

246

Authority publication

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Name usages

  1. Anderson (1972:246) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15657)
  2. Koopman (1994:108) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)

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