Eastern water bat
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| Species: | M. petax
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| Myotis petax Hollister, 1912
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The Eastern Water Bat or Sakhalin Bat (Myotis petax) is a species of mouse-eared bat. It was for a long time considered to be a subspecies of Myotis daubentonii.[1] It has not been assessed for the IUCN Red List.[2]
Distribution
The Eastern Water Bat is a forest bat found in Russia (south and eastern Siberia, Transbaikalia, Primorye and Sakhalin), northern China, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan (Hokkaido).[3]
References
- ^ Matveev, V.A., Kruskop, S.V. and Kramerov, D.A. 2005. Revalidation of Myotis petax Hollister, 1912 and its new status in connection with M. daubentonii (Kuhl, 1817) (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera). Acta Chiropterologica 7(1):23–37. [1]
- ^ IUCN Red List, accessed 19 August 2012
- ^ Bats of Russia page on Myotis petax, accessed 19 August 2012
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