Myotis bucharensis, Kuzyakin, 1950

Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Vespertilionidae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 716-981 : 977

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scientific name

Myotis bucharensis
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485. View Plate 74: Vespertilionidae

Bokhara Myotis

Myotis bucharensis View in CoL

French: Murin du Boukhara / German: Buchara-Mausohr / Spanish: Ratonero de Bujara

Other common names: Bocharic Myotis, Bokhara Whiskered Bat

Taxonomy. Myotis bucharensis Kuzyakin, 1950 View in CoL ,

Ayvadj, Kurgan-Tjubinskaja obl., Tajikistan.

Subgenus Myotis ; daubentonii species group. Myotis bucharensis was formerly included under M. frater butis clearly based on morphology. Monotypic.

Distribution. Known only from three localities in E Uzbekistan and SW Tajikistan. Erroneously reported from Afghanistan. View Figure

Descriptive notes. Head-body 46-51 mm, tail 46-55 mm, ear 11: 3-14 mm, hindfoot 7-8-9- 2 mm, forearm 38-43 mm. Dorsal pelage of the Bokhara Myotis is light pale brown; venteris off-white. Bare parts ofears, membrane, and face are light pale brown. Ears are notparticularly wide and abruptly narrow to rounded tips; tragus is longer than one-half the ear length. Wing membrane attaches to distal part of metatarsus of first toe. Skull is relatively long, with high, slightly inflated braincase; C' is relatively rounded, with two deep grooves on lingual side and another two on labial side; P* is small and displaced completely from tooth row; and M' and M* have metaloph but no protoconules.

Habitat. Arid habitats in foothill regions.

Food and Feeding. No information.

Breeding. No information.

Activity patterns. A colony of Bokhara Myotis roosted in an abandoned mine.

Movements, Home range and Social organization. Only known colony was a maternity colony of ¢.500 pregnant and lactating females and their young in Samarqand.

Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCNRed List. The Bokhara Myotis is very rarely collected, and all known records are from before 1965, despite organized collecting trips in the 1970s and 1980s. Only known colony roost in Samarqand was destroyed. Virtually nothing is known aboutits ecology and threats.

Bibliography. Benda & Gaisler (2015), Benda, Handk & Cerveny (2011), Horagek et al. (2000), Tsytsulina (2008g), Tsytsulina & Masuda (2004), Tsytsulina & Strelkov (2001).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Vespertilionidae

Genus

Myotis

Loc

Myotis bucharensis

Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier 2019
2019
Loc

Myotis bucharensis

Kuzyakin 1950
1950
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