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Myotis blythii  (Tomes, 1857)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 632003

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s): Myotis oxygnathus (Monticelli, 1885)
  
    Vespertilio blythii Tomes, 1857
  
    Vespertilio oxygnathus Monticelli, 1885
  
    Myotis blythii blythii (Tomes, 1857)
  
    Myotis blythii ancilla Thomas, 1910
  
    Myotis blythii lesviacus Iliopoulou-Georgudaki, 1984
  
    Myotis blythii omari Thomas, 1906
  
    Myotis myosotis ancilla Thomas, 1910
  
    Myotis myotis omari Thomas, 1906
  
  Common Name(s): lesser mouse-eared bat [English]
  
    Lesser Mouse-eared Myotis [English]
  
    Lesser Myotis [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderChiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 – morcego, quiróptero, bats  
                                  SuborderYangochiroptera Koopman, 1984  
                                     SuperfamilyVespertilionoidea Gray, 1821  
                                        FamilyVespertilionidae Gray, 1821 – vesper bats, vespertilionid bats, evening bats  
                                           SubfamilyMyotinae Tate, 1942 – myotis bats  
                                              GenusMyotis Kaup, 1829 – mouse-eared bats  
                                                 SubgenusMyotis (Myotis) Kaup, 1829  
                                                    SpeciesMyotis blythii (Tomes, 1857) – lesser mouse-eared bat, Lesser Mouse-eared Myotis, Lesser Myotis  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Don E. Wilson  
  Notes: Smithsonian Institution, MRC 108 Washington DC 20560-0108   
  Reference for: Myotis blythii    
       
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  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Ahmim, Mourad  
  Publication Date: 2017   
  Article/Chapter Title: Current status, distribution and conservation status of Algerian bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Journal of Threatened Taxa, vol. 9, no. 1   
  Page(s): 9723-9733   
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  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 0974-7893   
  Notes: doi: 10.11609/jot.2576.9.1.9723-9733   
  Reference for: Myotis blythii   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Simmons, Nancy B. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title: Order Chiroptera   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2   
  Page(s): 312-529   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Myotis blythii, Lesser Mouse-eared Myotis [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, D. E., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2019   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Handbook of the Mammals of the World. 9. Bats   
  Page(s): 1008   
  Publisher: Lynx Edicions   
  Publication Place: Barcelona, Spain   
  ISBN/ISSN: 978-84-16728190   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Myotis blythii, Lesser Myotis [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing   
  Page(s): xviii + 1207   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-217-9   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Myotis blythii   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole  
  Publication Date: 2000   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Common Names of Mammals of the World   
  Page(s): xiv + 204   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-56098-383-3   
  Notes: With contributions by Bernadette N. Graham, Adam P. Potter, and Mariana M. Upmeyer   
  Reference for: Myotis blythii, lesser mouse-eared bat [English]   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Southern Asia  
    Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China)  
       
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 Comments
       
  Comment: Status: IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) - Lower Risk (lc)  
    Comments: For discussion of synonyms see Strelkov (1972), Felten et al. (1977), Corbet (1978c), Bogan et al. (1978), and Horácek et al. (2000). Middle Eastern records reviewed by Harrison and Bates (1991), Palearctic records by Horácek et al. (2000). Does not include oxygnathus and punicus, which together with blythii form a paraphyletic assemblage that includes myotis; see Ruedi and Mayer (2001). In order to restrict all species to potentially monophyletic groups of populations, oxygnathus and punic...  
 

 

    

 
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