Myotis muricola Gray 1846

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 512

Myotis muricola Gray 1846

Myotis muricola Gray 1846 , Cat. Hodgson Coll. Brit. Mus.: 4.

Type Locality: Nepal.

Vernacular Names: Nepalese Whiskered Myotis.

Synonyms: Myotis muricola Hodgson 1841 ; Myotis trilatitoides Gray 1843 .

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Myotis muricola subsp. muricola Gray 1846

Subspecies Myotis muricola subsp. browni Taylor 1934

Subspecies Myotis muricola subsp. caliginosus Tomes 1859

Subspecies Myotis muricola subsp. herrei Taylor 1934

Subspecies Myotis muricola subsp. latirostris Kishida 1932

Subspecies Myotis muricola subsp. moupinensis Milne-Edwards 1872

Subspecies Myotis muricola subsp. niasensis Lyon 1916

Subspecies Myotis muricola subsp. patriciae Taylor 1934

Distribution: Afghanistan through N India and Nepal to Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, and New Guinea; possibly the Philippines.

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

Discussion: Includes caliginosus, moupinensis, and latirostris; see Findley (1972). Does not include ater or nugax; see Hill (1983) and Hill and Corbet (1992). Includes browni; see Hill and Rozendaal (1989). Includes herrei and patriciae; see Heaney et al. (1987), but also see Corbet and Hill (1992), who listed patriciae as a separate species with some reservations. Reviewed in part by Hill (1983), Kock (1996), Bates and Harrison (1997), Bates et al. (1999), Francis et al. (1999), and Hendrichsen et al. (2001). This complex may include more than one species, see Francis et al. (1999). There is apparently only one species of " muricola type" Myotis in the Philippines, but it is not yet clear if this taxon is ater or muricola (L. Heaney, pers. comm.); the same is probably also true of the Moluccas (K. Helgen, pers. comm.).