Miniopterus australis, Tomes, 1858

Wu, Yi, Motokawa, Masaharu, Li, Yu-Chun, Harada, Masashi, Chen, Zhong & Lin, Liang-Kong, 2009, Karyology of eight species of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Hainan Island, China, International Journal of Biological Sciences 5 (7), pp. 659-666 : 664

The karyotypes of Miniopterus australis

and M. schreibersii from Hainan Island were both 2n = 46, FN = 50 ( Fig. 4B, C ), both consisting of two large and one small metacentric or submetacentric pairs and 19 medium-sized to small acrocentric pairs in autosomes, a submetacentric X chromosome, and an acrocentric Y chromosome. One small acrocentric pair (No. 20) had a secondary constriction adjacent to the centromere. The karyotype of M. australis from Hainan Island is very similar to a previous report for the same species from Borneo [ 32]. The karyotype of M. schreibersii from Hainan Island is similar to those for M. schreibersii from Borneo and Taiwan [ 9, 32], M. s. chinensis from Anhui Province, China [ 44], M. s. pallidus from Russia [ 45], and M. s. fuliginosus from Japan [ 40, 46] and Guizhou Province, China [ 47] (as M. fuliginosus ). The members of this genus have likely retained the karyologically conservative state.

Figures

Figure 4 Karyotypes of Myotis horsfieldi (A), Min- iopterus australis (B), and M. schreibersii (C). Secondary constrictions are indicated by arrows.