Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus 1758

Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 32.

Type Locality: Sweden. Baagøe (2001 b) indicated that the type locality is probably near Uppsala, Central Sweden .

Vernacular Names: Particolored Bat.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Vespertilio murinus subsp. murinus Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Vespertilio murinus subsp. ussuriensis Wallin 1969

Distribution: E France, Britain, and Norway across C Russia, Caucasus, S Ural, S Siberia, Ussuri region (Russia), Mongolia, NE China, and Korea; Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, E Afghanistan and N Pakistan.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed in part by Bates and Harrison (1997), Horácek et al. (2000), and Baagøe (2001 b).