Myotis mystacinus (Kuhl 1817)

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 : 512

Myotis mystacinus (Kuhl 1817)

[Vespertilio] mystacinus Kuhl 1817 , Die Deutschen Fledermause. Hanau: 15.

Type Locality: Germany.

Vernacular Names: Whiskered Myotis.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Myotis mystacinus subsp. mystacinus Kuhl 1817

Subspecies Myotis mystacinus subsp. caucasicus Tsytsulina 2000

Subspecies Myotis mystacinus subsp. occidentalis Benda 2000

Distribution: Ireland and Scandinavia to C Russia and the Ural Moutains, Kazakhstan, south to Syria, Israel, and Morocco.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Strelkov (1983), Bates and Harrison (1997), and Horácek et al. (2000), revised by Benda and Tsytsulina (2000) and Tsytsulina (2001). Does not include davidii , hajastanicus , nipalensis , przewalskii, or sogdianus, transcaspicus; see Benda and Tsytsulina (2000) and Kawai et al. (2003). Includes aurascens; see Mayer and von Helversen (2001 a), but also see Benda and Tsytsulina (2000). This complex may include at least one cryptic species in Europe; see Mayer and von Helversen (2001 a). Japanese specimens previously referred to this species clearly represent an apparently unnamed taxon distinct from both mystacinus and davidii ; see Kawai et al. (2003). Specimens from Vietnam originally identified as mystacinus may represent muricola (see Bates et al., 1999); alternatively, they might represent davidii or be conspecific with the unnamed Japanese form.