Myotis muricola (Gray, 1846) . Cat. Hodgson Coll. Brit. Mus., p. 4.

TYPE LOCALITY: Nepal .

DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan to Taiwan and New Guinea.

SYNONYMS: amboiensis, ater, blanfordi, browni, caliginosus, berrei, latirostris, lobipes, moupinensis, niasensis, nugax, orii, patriciae .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Selysius . Includes caliginosus, moupinensis, latirostris, and ater; see Findley (1972:42, 43); but see Hill (1983), who separated ater (including nugax and australis). Includes browni, see Hill and Rozendaal (1989), and herrei and patriciae, see Heaney et al. (1987).