Murina aenea Hill, 1964

Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu & John-James Wilson, 2017, A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library, PLoS ONE 12 (7), pp. 1-65 : 43-44

Murina aenea Hill, 1964

Murina aenea Hill, 1964: 57 , pls 54, 55; Ulu Chemperoh , near Janda Baik, Bentong District, Pahang, MALAYSIA, c. 3˚18’N, 101˚50’E, 2000 ft (Collector unknown; BM(NH) 1964.770) [ 194].

Common English name: Bronzed Tube-nosed Bat

Barcode Index Number: BOLD: AAE 6670 (2 DNA barcodes from Peninsular Malaysia; Fig 6 )

IUCN status: Vulnerable

Recorded at: Pahang: Krau Wildlife Reserve [ 11], Bentong [ 23], Bukit Ibam and Klau Besar [ 100], Ulu Chemperoh [ 192]; Terengganu: Pasir Raja, Dungun [ 15]; Perak: Temengor Forest Reserve [ 46, 47]; Johor: Gunung Panti [ 100]; Kedah: Bukit Hijau [ 100]; Selangor: Ulu Gombak [ 173].

The roosting ecology of M. aenea remains unknown but the species has been recorded in lowland and hill dipterocarp forests [ 11, 14, 23].

Figures

Fig 6. Neighbour-joining tree showing all available DNA barcodes for species in family Vespertilionidae reported from Peninsular Malaysia. The percentage of pseudoreplicate trees (±70%) in which the DNA barcodes clustered together in the bootstrap test (500 pseudoreplicates) are shown above the branches. Abbreviation as follows: PM = Peninsular Malaysia,VN = Vietnam, BN = Borneo (including Sabah & Sarawak of East Malaysia, Brunei and Kalimantan Indonesia), TH = Thailand, LA = Laos, SM = Sumatera Indonesia, JV = Java Indonesia, CH = China, CM = Cambodia. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179555.g006