A small Myotis species belonging to the Myotis siligorensis group was found in four caves in Yunnan province, South China. Twenty specimens of this bat were compared with other East Asian Myotis species. Statistical and physical analysis of this sample demonstrates that, despite their similarity to M. siligorensis, the Yunnan specimens have characteristics of baculum morphology and cranial proportions suggesting that they represent a distinct species.
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1 December 2011
A New Mouse-Eared Bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) from South China
Mikhail P. Tiunov,
Sergei V. Kruskop,
Jiang Feng
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Acta Chiropterologica
Vol. 13 • No. 2
December 2011
Vol. 13 • No. 2
December 2011
baculum
Myotis sp. nov.
South China
taxonomy