Murina shuipuensis, Eger & Lim, 2011
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331. View Plate 68: Vespertilionidae
Shuipu Tube-nosed Bat
Murina shuipuensis View in CoL
French: Murine de Shuipu / German: Shuipu-Rohrennase / Spanish: Ratonero narizudo de Shuipu
Other common names: Shiipu Tube-nosed Bat
Taxonomy. Murina shuipuensis Eger & B. K. Lim, 2011 View in CoL ,
“Shuipu Village, Yuping Town, Libo County, Guizhou, China. 25°28’59”N, 107°52’54”E, elevation 650 m above sea level.” GoogleMaps
See M. leucogaster . Monotypic.
Distribution. Known from three localities in Guizhou, Guangdong, and Jiangxi, SE China. View Figure
Descriptive notes. Head-body 34-546- 5 mm, tail 31-8-41- 6 mm, ear 10-714- 2 mm, hindfoot 6-6-9- 2 mm, forearm 30-5-34- 6 mm; weight 4-6- 8 g. Fur is long and woolly; dorsally golden grayish brown with a banded appearance (hairs with dark gray base, buff middle band, and blackish tips, with longer shiny golden-tipped guard hairs mixed throughout); ventrally bright orange yellow (hairs blackish with orange yellow distal half, with longer shiny orange guard hairs throughout). Dorsal fur extends onto base of wings, uropatagium, thumbs, and feet, and there is a well-developed fringe of hairs around margin of uropatagium. Dark face mask around eyes, muzzle, and lower forehead (darkest on muzzle and nostrils), and face is furred except long, protuberant nostrils, which are naked. Ears are oval, with smoothly convex anterior margins, distinct notch on posterior margin, and rounded tip; tragus is long, narrow, and tapering toward pointed tip, with slightly convex anterior margin, concave posterior margin, and basal notch, and it curves outwards slightly. Wing attaches close to base of claw of first toe. Skull is small with deep rostrum that slopes gently to forehead; sagittal crest is absent and lambdoidal crest is weakly developed. Canines are heavy and longer than second premolars (P4); P? is greater than half the height and crown area of P*; mesostyles on M' and M? are not reduced; talonids of M, and M, are two-thirds the size of their respective trigonids.
Habitat. The type specimen was captured in secondary subtropical moist broadleaf forest on low karstic mountains at an elevation of 650 m.
Food and Feeding. No information.
Breeding. No information.
Activity patterns. No information.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.
Status and Conservation. Not assessed on The IUCN Red List due to its recent recognition as a species. Currently known from only 13 specimens from three localities, and virtually nothing is known ofits ecology and potential threats. It occurs in Nanling National Nature Reserve in Guangdong, and Jinggangshan National Nature Reserve in Jiangxi.
Bibliography. Chen Jian et al. (2017), Eger & Lim (2011), Wang Xiaoyun et al. (2016), Zeng Xiang et al. (2018).
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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Murina shuipuensis
| Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier 2019 |
Murina shuipuensis Eger & B. K. Lim, 2011
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