Bocharic myotis

Species of bat

Bocharic myotis
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Myotis
Species:
M. bucharensis
Binomial name
Myotis bucharensis
Kuzyakin, 1950

The Bocharic myotis or Bokhara whiskered bat (Myotis bucharensis) is a species of mouse-eared bat in the family Vespertilionidae, described in 1950, and indigenous to Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

Taxonomy

The Bocharic myotis was described as a new subspecies of Myotis longicaudatus[2] in 1950 by Alexander Petrovitch Kuzyakin (also known as Aleksandr Petrovich Kuzâkin).[1] The holotype had been collected near Kurgan-Tjubinskaja in Tajikistan.[3] When M. longicaudatus was later recognized as a synonym of the fraternal myotis, the Bocharic myotis had a trinomen of Myotis frater bucharensis. Publications in 2000 and 2001 reasserted its status as a full species rather than a subspecies, however.[1] Based on the analysis of two genes, one nuclear and one mitochondrial, the Bocharic myotis is part of a species complex including the fraternal myotis. Its sister taxon is likely the long-tailed myotis (M. longicaudatus).[4]

Range

The Bocharic myotis is only known from Central Asia. The species was first documented in Tajikistan; between 1959 and 1963, four individuals were documented near Samarqand and Tashkent, Uzbekistan. It has been speculated that it may also occur in Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan.[1]

Conservation

Since investigators failed to locate the species during field trips in the 1970s and 1980s, the International Union for Conservation of Nature suggested that M. bucharensis was potentially extinct in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.[1] In 2019, a male Bocharic myotis was captured near the Zeravshan river in Tajikistan, confirming that the species is still present there.[4]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e Srinivasulu, B.; Srinivasulu, C. (2019). "Myotis bucharensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T136219A22011494. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T136219A22011494.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Horacek, Ivan; Hanak, Vladimir; Jiri Gaisler (2000). "Bats of the Palearctic Region: A Taxonomic and Biogeographic Review". doi:10.13140/2.1.4099.2643. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. JHU Press. p. 504. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Retrieved 2012-09-27.
  4. ^ a b Kazakov, Denis V.; Artyushin, Ilya V.; Khabilov, Tolibjon K.; Tadzhibaeva, Dilbar E.; Kruskop, Sergei V. (2020). "Back to life and to taxonomy: New record and reassessment of Myotis bucharensis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)". Zootaxa. 4878 (1): 129–144. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4878.1.5. PMID 33311169. S2CID 228879012.
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Species of subfamily Myotinae
Myotis
  • Large-footed bat (M. adversus)
  • Southern myotis (M. aelleni)
  • Silver-tipped myotis (M. albescens)
  • Myotis alcathoe (M. alcathoe)
  • Szechwan myotis (M. altarium)
  • Anjouan myotis (M. anjouanensis)
  • Annamit myotis (M. annamiticus)
  • M. annatessae
  • Hairy-faced bat (M. annectans)
  • Atacama myotis (M. atacamensis)
  • Peters's myotis (M. ater)
  • Sir David Attenborough's myotis (M. attenboroughi)
  • Southwestern myotis (M. auriculus)
  • Australian myotis (M. australis)
  • Southeastern myotis (M. austroriparius)
  • Chestnut myotis (M. badius)
  • M. bartelsi
  • Bechstein's bat (M. bechsteinii)
  • Lesser mouse-eared bat (M. blythii)
  • Rufous mouse-eared bat (M. bocagii)
  • Far Eastern myotis (M. bombinus)
  • Brandt's bat (M. brandtii)
  • Bocharic myotis (M. bucharensis)
  • California myotis (M. californicus)
  • Long-fingered bat (M. capaccinii)
  • Chilean myotis (M. chiloensis)
  • Large myotis (M. chinensis)
  • Western small-footed bat (M. ciliolabrum)
  • Guatemalan myotis (M. cobanensis)
  • Cryptic myotis (Myotis crypticus)
  • Csorba's mouse-eared bat (M. csorbai)
  • Pond bat (M. dasycneme)
  • Daubenton's bat (M. daubentonii)
  • David's myotis (M. davidii)
  • Kock's mouse-eared bat (M. dieteri)
  • M. diminutus
  • Dominican myotis (M. dominicensis)
  • Elegant myotis (M. elegans)
  • Geoffroy's bat (M. emarginatus)
  • M. escalerai
  • Long-eared myotis (M. evotis)
  • M. fimbriatus
  • Findley's myotis (M. findleyi)
  • M. flavus
  • Hodgson's bat (M. formosus)
  • Cinnamon myotis (M. fortidens)
  • Fraternal myotis (M. frater)
  • Gomantong myotis (M. gomantongensis)
  • Malagasy mouse-eared bat (M. goudoti)
  • Gray bat (M. grisescens)
  • Armenian whiskered bat (M. hajastanicus)
  • M. handleyi
  • Lesser large-footed bat (M. hasseltii)
  • Herman's myotis (M. hermani)
  • Horsfield's bat (M. horsfieldii)
  • M. hyrcanicus
  • Ikonnikov's bat (M. ikonnikovi)
  • M. indochinensis
  • Insular myotis (M. insularum)
  • M. izecksohni
  • Hairy-legged myotis (M. keaysi)
  • Keen's myotis (M. keenii)
  • Chinese water myotis (M. laniger)
  • M. lavali
  • Eastern small-footed myotis (M. leibii)
  • Yellowish myotis (M. levis)
  • Kashmir cave bat (M. longipes)
  • Little brown bat (M. lucifugus)
  • Eastern long-fingered bat (M. macrodactylus)
  • M. macropus
  • Pallid large-footed myotis (M. macrotarsus)
  • Schwartz's myotis (M. martiniquensis)
  • Dark-nosed small-footed myotis (M. melanorhinus)
  • M. midastactus
  • Maluku myotis (M. moluccarum)
  • Burmese whiskered bat (M. montivagus)
  • Morris's bat (M. morrisi)
  • Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat (M. muricola)
  • Greater mouse-eared bat (M. myotis)
  • Whiskered bat (M. mystacinus)
  • Natterer's bat (M. nattereri)
  • Curacao myotis (M. nesopolus)
  • Black myotis (M. nigricans)
  • Nimba mountain bat (M. nimbaensis)
  • Nepal myotis (M. nipalensis)
  • M. nyctor
  • Arizona myotis (M. occultus)
  • Singapore whiskered bat (M. oreias)
  • Montane myotis (M. oxyotus)
  • Peninsular myotis (M. peninsularis)
  • Beijing mouse-eared bat (M. pequinius)
  • Eastern water bat (M. petax)
  • M. phanluongi
  • Flat-headed myotis (M. planiceps)
  • Frosted myotis (M. pruinosus)
  • Felten's myotis (M. punicus)
  • Rickett's big-footed bat (M. ricketti)
  • Ridley's bat (M. ridleyi)
  • Riparian myotis (M. riparius)
  • Thick-thumbed myotis (M. rosseti)
  • Red myotis (M. ruber)
  • Schaub's myotis (M. schaubi)
  • Scott's mouse-eared bat (M. scotti)
  • Northern long-eared bat (M. septentrionalis)
  • M. sibiricus
  • Mandelli's mouse-eared bat (M. sicarius)
  • Himalayan whiskered bat (M. siligorensis)
  • Velvety myotis (M. simus)
  • Indiana bat (M. sodalis)
  • Kei myotis (M. stalkeri)
  • M. taiwanensis
  • Fringed myotis (M. thysanodes)
  • Cape hairy bat (M. tricolor)
  • Cave myotis (M. velifer)
  • M. vivesi
  • Long-legged myotis (M. volans)
  • Welwitsch's bat (M. welwitschii)
  • Yanbaru whiskered bat (M. yanbarensis)
  • Yuma myotis (M. yumanensis)
  • Zenati myotis (Myotis zenatius)
Submyotodon
  • S. caliginosus
  • Taiwan broad-muzzled myotis (S. latirostris)
  • S. moupinensis
Taxon identifiers
Myotis bucharensis