Myotis punicus Felten, Spitzenberger, and Storch 1977

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 : 515

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11328357
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scientific name	Myotis punicus Felten, Spitzenberger, and Storch 1977
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Myotis punicus Felten, Spitzenberger, and Storch 1977 View in CoL

Myotis punicus Felten, Spitzenberger, and Storch 1977 View in CoL , Senckenberg. Biol., 58: 39.

Type Locality: Tunisia, Cap Bon, El Haouaria Cave.

Vernacular Names: Maghrebian Myotis.

Distribution: Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Malta, Corsica ( France), and Sardinia ( Italy).

Conservation: IUCN 2003 – Not evaluated; not considered in IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001).

Discussion: Originally described as a subspecies of blythii , but recently shown to lie outside a clade including blythii , myotis , and oxygnathus ; see Ruedi and Mayer (2001). Also see Borg (1998) and Castella et al. (2000). Accordingly, punicus is treated as a separate species here.