Myotis australis Dobson 1878

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 : 502

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11328100
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scientific name	Myotis australis Dobson 1878
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Myotis australis Dobson 1878 View in CoL

Myotis australis Dobson 1878 View in CoL , Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus.: 317.

Type Locality: Australia, New South Wales.

Vernacular Names: Australian Myotis.

Distribution: New South Wales, possibly Western Australia ( Australia).

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Data Deficient.

Discussion: Poorly known, the holotype and only certain specimen possibly being incorrectly labelled, or a vagrant individual of muricola ( Husson, 1970) . A specimen from NW Australia may belong in this species ( Koopman, 1984 c). Hill (1983) considered australis a subspecies of ater .