Myotis australis Dobson 1878

Myotis australis Dobson 1878, Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus.: 317.

Type Locality: Australia, New South Wales.

Vernacular Names: Australian Myotis.

Distribution: New South Wales, possibly Western Australia (Australia).

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Data Deficient.

Discussion: Poorly known, the holotype and only certain specimen possibly being incorrectly labelled, or a vagrant individual of muricola (Husson, 1970) . A specimen from NW Australia may belong in this species (Koopman, 1984 c). Hill (1983) considered australis a subspecies of ater .