Myotis bucharensis, Kuzyakin, 1950

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Bokhara Myotis

Myotis bucharensis

French: Murin du Boukhara / German: Buchara-Mausohr / Spanish: Ratonero de Bujara

Other common names: Bocharic Myotis, Bokhara Whiskered Bat

Taxonomy. Myotis bucharensis Kuzyakin, 1950 ,

Ayvadj, Kurgan-Tjubinskaja obl., Tajikistan.

Subgenus Myotis ; daubentonii species group. Myotis bucharensis was formerly included under M. frater butis clearly based on morphology. Monotypic.

Distribution. Known only from three localities in E Uzbekistan and SW Tajikistan. Erroneously reported from Afghanistan.

Descriptive notes. Head-body 46-51 mm, tail 46-55 mm, ear 11: 3-14 mm, hindfoot 7-8-9- 2 mm, forearm 38-43 mm. Dorsal pelage of the Bokhara Myotis is light pale brown; venteris off-white. Bare parts ofears, membrane, and face are light pale brown. Ears are notparticularly wide and abruptly narrow to rounded tips; tragus is longer than one-half the ear length. Wing membrane attaches to distal part of metatarsus of first toe. Skull is relatively long, with high, slightly inflated braincase; C' is relatively rounded, with two deep grooves on lingual side and another two on labial side; P* is small and displaced completely from tooth row; and M' and M* have metaloph but no protoconules.

Habitat. Arid habitats in foothill regions.

Food and Feeding. No information.

Breeding. No information.

Activity patterns. A colony of Bokhara Myotis roosted in an abandoned mine.

Movements, Home range and Social organization. Only known colony was a maternity colony of ¢.500 pregnant and lactating females and their young in Samarqand.

Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCNRed List. The Bokhara Myotis is very rarely collected, and all known records are from before 1965, despite organized collecting trips in the 1970s and 1980s. Only known colony roost in Samarqand was destroyed. Virtually nothing is known aboutits ecology and threats.

Bibliography. Benda & Gaisler (2015), Benda, Handk & Cerveny (2011), Horagek et al. (2000), Tsytsulina (2008g), Tsytsulina & Masuda (2004), Tsytsulina & Strelkov (2001).

Figures

475. Russian Myotis (Myotis petax), 476. Big-footed Myotis (Myotis macrodactylus), 477. Fringed Long-footed Myotis (Myotis fimbriatus), 478. Ricketts Big-footed Myotis (Myotis pilosus), 479. Mandelli’s Myotis (Myotis sicarius), 480. Bechstein’s Myotis (Myotis bechsteinii), 481. Long-tailed Myotis (Myotis longicaudatus), 482. Daubenton’s Myotis (Myotis daubentonii), 483. Reddish Myotis (Myotis soror), 484. Fraternal Myotis (Myotis frater), 485. Bokhara Myotis (Myotis bucharensis), 486. Lesser Myotis (Myotis blythii), 487. Greater Myotis (Myotis myotis), 488. Maghreb Myotis (Myotis punicus), 489. Natterer’s Myotis (Myotis nattereri), 490. Cryptic Myotis (Myotis crypticus), 491. Schaub’s Myotis (Myotis schaubi), 492. Escalera’s Myotis (Myotis escalerar), 493. Zenati Myotis (Myotis zenatius), 494. Peking Myotis (Myotis pequinius), 495. Far Eastern Myotis (Myotis bombinus), 496. Large Myotis (Myotis chinensis)

Distribution. Known only from three localities in E Uzbekistan and SW Tajikistan . Erroneously reported from Afghanistan .