Myotis formosus Hodgson 1835

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 451-529 : 507

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scientific name	Myotis formosus Hodgson 1835
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Myotis formosus Hodgson 1835 , J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 4: 700.

Type Locality: Nepal.

Vernacular Names: Hodgson's Myotis.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Myotis formosus subsp. formosus Hodgson 1835

Subspecies Myotis formosus subsp. bartelsi Jentink 1910

Subspecies Myotis formosus subsp. rufoniger Tomes 1858

Subspecies Myotis formosus subsp. rufopictus Waterhouse 1845

Subspecies Myotis formosus subsp. tsuensis Kuroda 1922

Subspecies Myotis formosus subsp. watasei Kishida 1924

Subspecies Myotis formosus subsp. weberi Jentink 1890

Distribution: Afghanistan to N India, Nepal, Tibet, Kweichow, Kwangsi, Kiangsu and Fukien ( China); Taiwan, Korea, Tsushima Isl ( Japan), Malaysia, Philippines, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and Bali.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc). IUCN 2003 – Not evaluated as M. f. bartelsi.

Discussion: For discussion of synonyms see Findley (1972). Does not include hermani ; see Corbet and Hill (1992). Reviewed in part by Yoshiyuki (1989), Yoon (1990), and Bates and Harrison (1997). M. f. rufopictus may represent a distinct species; see Heaney et al. (1998).