Murina tubinaris Scully, 1881

Struebig, Matthew J., Rossiter, Stephen J., Bates, Paul J. J., Kingston, Tigga, Oo, Sai Sein Lin, Nwe, Aye Aye, Aung, Moe Moe, Win, Sein Sein & Mya, Khin Mya, 2005, Results of a recent bat survey in Upper Myanmar including new records from the Kachin forests, Acta Chiropterologica 7 (1), pp. 147-163 : 158-159

Murina tubinaris Scully, 1881

Scully’s tube-nosed bat

New material

Kachin State: Namdee Hill, 11.4.2003, 1 ♂ (MA030411:17).

Previous records from Myanmar

Kachin State: Nam Tamai Valley ( Bates and Harrison, 1997).

Comments

The two recent specimens from Myanmar are both relatively small ( Tables 1 and 2) when compared to those from India included in Bates and Harrison (1997). However, in all other characters they are comparable and are included in the nomi- nate race M. t. tubinaris . The hairs of the dorsal pelage are tri-coloured with dark grey tips, light grey mid-parts and dark grey roots; on the ventral surface the hair tips are pale with contrasting dark grey roots. The ears are broadly rounded and with a small emargination on their posterior borders. In the lower dentition, P 2 is about half the crown area of the trigonid of M 1. Like M. cyclotis , we consider this species a forest specialist. The recent speci- mens from Namdee Hill are the first col- lected in Myanmar since those of Ronald

Kaukback from Kachin State in 1933 ( Hill, 1962).