Miniopterus medius Thomas and Wroughton, 1909

Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu & John-James Wilson, 2017, A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library, PLoS ONE 12 (7), pp. 1-65 : 42

Miniopterus medius Thomas and Wroughton, 1909

Miniopterus medius Thomas and Wroughton, 1909: 382 ; Kalipoetjang , Tji-Tandoei River, west Java, INDONESIA (G. C. Shortridge, collector; BM(NH) 1909.1.5.464) [ 186].

Common English name: Medium Bent-winged Bat

Barcode Index Number: BOLD:AAF0138 (1 DNA barcode from Peninsular Malaysia; Fig 6 )

Remarks: DNA barcodes recorded as M. medius are associated with two BINs, BOLD: AAF0137, and BOLD:AAF0138. The BIN, BOLD:AAF0138 contains the only DNA barcode from Peninsular Malaysia (ABBSI031-04) and unidentified DNA barcodes from Thailand. None of the DNA barcodes were collected near the type locality. We found an 8.1% divergence between the two BINs ( Fig 6 ). No subspecies is described for the species at the moment.

IUCN status: Least Concern

Recorded at: Pahang: Krau Wildlife Reserve [ 11], Panching and Fraser Hill [ 23], Bukit Cheras [ 140]; Perak: Maxwell Hill and Gunong Pondok [ 23]; Johor: Kaban Island [ 23];

Selangor: Ulu Gombak [ 53]; Terengganu: Bukit Dendong [ 97].

M. medius roosts in caves and inhabits primary lowland, hill and montane forests [ 11, 14, 23].

Figures

Fig 6. Neighbour-joining tree showing all available DNA barcodes for species in family Vespertilionidae reported from Peninsular Malaysia. The percentage of pseudoreplicate trees (±70%) in which the DNA barcodes clustered together in the bootstrap test (500 pseudoreplicates) are shown above the branches. Abbreviation as follows: PM = Peninsular Malaysia,VN = Vietnam, BN = Borneo (including Sabah & Sarawak of East Malaysia, Brunei and Kalimantan Indonesia), TH = Thailand, LA = Laos, SM = Sumatera Indonesia, JV = Java Indonesia, CH = China, CM = Cambodia. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179555.g006