Kerivoula whiteheadi Thomas, 1894

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Kerivoula whiteheadi Thomas, 1894 (?)

Kerivoula whiteheadi Thomas, 1894: 460 ; Molino, Isabella, northeast Luzaon Island, PHIL- LIPINES (J. Whitehead, collector; BM(NH) 1894.10.9.2) [ 182].

Common English name: Whitehead’s Woolly Bat

Barcode Index Number: There are no DNA barcodes recorded under this name on BOLD.

IUCN status: Least Concern

Remarks: Chasen [ 8] listed K. whiteheadi as Kerivoula bicolor (now Kerivoula whiteheadi bicolor ) in his “Handlist of Malaysian Mammals”.

Recorded at: The holotype of K. whiteheadi bicolor (BM(NH) 3.2.6.91) which was collected in Biserat, Jalor = Yala, Malay Peninsula, which is now the southern tip of Thailand, is the only record from the mainland [ 14, 74]. K. whiteheadi may be expected to occur in Peninsular Malaysia [ 6, 8, 9, 23] based on the type locality but is yet to be documented [ 169].

K. whiteheadi has been recorded in secondary forests, shrubs and open grasslands, and found roosting in small groups of twenty to thirty individuals among dead leaves by a river [ 14].