Murina chrysochaetes, Eger & Lim, 2011

Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Vespertilionidae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 716-981 : 911-912

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6397752

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6580664

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Murina chrysochaetes
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341. View Plate 68: Vespertilionidae

Golden-haired Tube-nosed Bat

Murina chrysochaetes View in CoL

French: Murine a toison d'or / German: Goldbraune Rohrennase / Spanish: Ratonero narizudo de puntas doradas

Taxonomy. Murina chrysochaetes Eger & B. K. Lim, 2011 View in CoL ,

“Diding Headwater Forest Nature Preserve (formerly known as Jing Xi County Provincial Nature Reserve),Jing Xi County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. 23°07'12"N, 105°57'36"E, elevation 978 m above sea level.” GoogleMaps

Limited genetic data place this species close to M. harpioloides . Monotypic.

Distribution. SC China (Guangxi) and N Vietnam (Hoang Lien National Park and Phia Oac-Phia Den Nature Reserve). View Figure

Descriptive notes. Head-body 40-41 mm, tail 24-26 mm, ear 12-12- 6 mm, hindfoot 5:5- 5-6 mm, forearm 26-4-29- 8 mm; weight 3-4- 4 g. The Golden-haired Tube-nosed Bat is perhaps the smallest species in the genus. Fur is long and silky; dorsally golden brown (hairs with black basal two-thirds and yellow brown distal end with dark tip; or black base with gold middle band and black tip for hairs on the shoulders and back; longer guard hairs with black bases and gold tips mixed throughout); ventrally offwhite (black hairs and long white guard hairs; from chest to lower abdomen, hairs are black, guard hairs gold-tipped; on lower abdomen, hairs are black-based with pale tips, with white-tipped guard hairs). Dorsal pelage extends sparsely onto wings, uropatagium, thumbs, and feet. Face is sparsely haired except long protuberant nostrils, which are naked. Ears are short, broad, and rounded, with smoothly convex anterior margins, small notch on posterior margin, and broadly rounded tip; tragusis long, narrow, and tapering toward pointed tip. Wing attaches to base of claw on first toe. Skull has highly domed braincase with abruptly sloped forehead and short, narrow rostrum; no sagittal crest, and lambdoid crest is very weak. C'! is about half the basal area of P* and equal in height; P? is about half the height and one-third the crown area of P* mesostyles of M' and M? are reduced; talonids of M, and M, are two-thirds the size of the trigonid.

Habitat. Secondary evergreen forest in mountainous areas at elevations of 978-1950 m.

Food and Feeding. No information.

Breeding. No information.

Activity patterns. No information.

Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.

Status and Conservation. Not assessed on The [UCN Red List, due to its recent description. The Golden-haired Tube-nosed Bat is known only from a few localities.

Bibliography. Eger & Lim (2011), Kruskop (2013a), Nguyen Truong Son et al. (2015), Soisook (2013).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Vespertilionidae

Genus

Murina

Loc

Murina chrysochaetes

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

Murina chrysochaetes Eger & B. K. Lim, 2011

Eger & Lim 2011
2011
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