Myotis sowerbyi
A. B. Howell, 1926
Sowerby's 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
Authority citation
Howell, A.B. 1926-12-27. Three new mammals from China. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 39:137-139.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34550608Original name as described
Myotis sowerbyi
Type material
USNM:MAMM:238869
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3291c2402-a322-4c18-81f8-2f0a77026a59Type locality
"near Yenpingfu, Fukien [= Fujian], China."
Biogeographic realm
Palearctic
Country distribution
China
Taxonomy notes
split from M. siligorensis
Taxonomy notes citation
Ruedi, M., Csorba, G., Lin, L. K., & Chou, C. H. (2015). Molecular phylogeny and morphological revision of Myotis bats (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Taiwan and adjacent China. Zootaxa, 3920(1), 301-342. · 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.
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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