Myotis zenatius

Ibáñez, Juste, Salicini, Puechmaille, & Ruedi in Juste, Ruedi, Puechmaille, Salicini, & Ibáñez, 2019

Zenati 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

Authority citation

Juste, J., Ruedi, M., Puechmaille, S.J., Salicini, I. and Ibáñez, C. 2019-02-14. Two new cryptic bat species within the _Myotis nattereri_ species complex (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera) from the western Palaearctic. Acta Chiropterologica 20(2):285-300.

Original name as described

Myotis zenatius

Other common names

Zenati Bat

Type material

EBD 29831

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Mizou Cave, Tetouan, Morocco (ca. 35°30'42"N, 5°19'33"W), at an altitude of 330 m a.s.l."

Biogeographic realm

Palearctic

Country distribution

Morocco · Algeria · Tunisia?

Taxonomy notes

recently described; includes the recently described name cabrerae, which is considered unavailable due to publication in which it was described not adhering to the ICZN Code

Taxonomy notes citation

Juste, J., Ruedi, M., Puechmaille, S. J., Salicini, I., & Ibáñez, C. (2018). Two new cryptic bat species within the Myotis nattereri species complex (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera) from the Western Palaearctic. Acta Chiropterologica, 20(2), 285-300. · Çoraman, E., Dietz, C., Hempel, E., Ghazaryan, A., Levin, E., Presetnik, P., ... & Mayer, F. (2019). Reticulate evolutionary history of a Western Palaearctic Bat Complex explained by multiple mt DNA introgressions in secondary contacts. Journal of Biogeography, 46(2), 343-354. · Ruedi, M., Puechmaille, S. J., Ibáñez, C., & Juste, J. (2019). Unavailable names in the Myotis nattereri species complex. Journal of Biogeography, 46(9), 2145-2146.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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