Myotis alticraniatus

Osgood, 1932

Indochinese Whiskered 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

Osgood, W.H. 1932-08-19. Mammals of the Kelley-Roosevelts and Delacour Asiatic expeditions. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 18(10):193-339.

Original name as described

Myotis siligorensis alticraniatus

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:32174

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Muong Moun, Tonkin," Vietnam.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya · Palearctic

Country distribution

China · Vietnam · Laos · Cambodia · Thailand · Myanmar · Malaysia · Indonesia

Taxonomy notes

split from M. siligorensis and includes thaianus and badius 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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