Myotis lucifugus (Le Conte, 1831)

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 212

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scientific name	Myotis lucifugus (Le Conte, 1831)
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Myotis lucifugus (Le Conte, 1831) View in CoL View at ENA . In McMurtie, Animal Kingdom, l(App.):431.

TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Georgia, Liberty Co., near Riceboro .

DISTRIBUTION: Alaska ( USA) to Labrador and Newfoundland ( Canada), south to Distrito Federal ( Mexico).

SYNONYMS: affinis , alascensis, albicinctus, altipetens, baileyi, brevirostris , carissima , carolii, crassus , domesticus, gryphus, lanceolatus, occultus , pernox , relictus, salarii, virginianus.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Leuconoe . Includes occultus ; see Findley and Jones (1967). Hybridizes with yumanensis in some areas; see Parkinson (1979), but see Herd and Fenton (1983). See Fenton and Barclay (1980, Mammalian Species, 142).

References

Fenton, M. B., and R. M. R. Barclay. 1980. Myotis lucifugus. Mammalian Species, 142: 1 - 8.

Findley, J. S., and C. Jones. 1967. Taxonomic relationships of bats of the species Myotis fortidens, M. lucifugus, and M. occultus. Journal of Mammalogy, 48: 429 - 444.

Herd, R. M., and M. B. Fenton. 1983. An electrophoretic, morphological, and ecological investigation of a putative hybrid zone between Myotis lucifugus and Myotis yumanensis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 61: 2029 - 2050.

Parkinson, A. 1979. Morphologic variation and hybridization in Myotis yumanensis sociabilis and Myotis lucifugus carissima. Journal of Mammalogy, 60: 489 - 504.