Myotis australis (Dobson, 1878)

Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241 : 208

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scientific name	Myotis australis (Dobson, 1878)
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Myotis australis (Dobson, 1878) View in CoL . Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus., p. 317.

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales .

DISTRIBUTION: New South Wales, possibly Western Australia ( Australia).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Selysius . Poorly known, the type and only certain specimen possibly being incorrectly labelled, or a vagrant individual of muricola . See also Aust. Bat Res. News, 9. A specimen from NW Australia may belong in this species ( Koopman, 1984c:ll-12). Hill (1983) considered australis a subspecies of ater (here included in M. muricola ).