Myotis pequinius

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Vespertilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Trechnotheria Infraclassis: Zatheria Supercohors: Theria Cohors: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Cladus: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Ordo: Chiroptera Subordo: Yangochiroptera Superfamilia: Vespertilionoidea

Familia: Vespertilionidae
Subfamilia: Myotinae
Genus: Myotis
Species: Myotis pequinius

Name

Myotis pequinius Thomas, 1908: 637

• Holotype: BMNH 1908.8.7.2 (formerly 1573), adult ♂, skin and skull, collected by M.P. Anderson on 11 October 1907.
• Type locality: “China, Cave 30 miles W. of Peking. Alt. 600'”.

Native distribution areas

• China: Beijing, Sichuan, Henan, Jiangsu (Smith & Xie 2008), Anhui (CSIS 2008), Hebei, Shandong (Jiang et al. 2015), Shaanxi (Jones et al. 2006) and Shanxi (T. Jiang pers. comm. August 2018).

References

Primary references

• Thomas 1908. The Duke of Bedford’s Zoological Exploration in Eastern Asia. X. List of Mammals from the Provinces of Chih-li and Shan-si, N. China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 78(3): 635–646. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1908.tb07397.x; BHL

Additional references

• Jones, G., Parsons, S., Zhang, S., Stadelmann, B., Benda, P. & Ruedi, M. 2006. Echolocation calls, wingshape, diet and phylogenetic diagnosis of the endemic Chinese bat Myotis pequinius. Acta Chiropterologica 8(2): 451–463. DOI: 10.3161/1733-5329(2006)8[451:ECWSDA]2.0.CO;2 Reference page. 
• Smith, A.T. & Xie, Y. (Eds.). 2008. A Guide to the Mammals of China. Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey. 544 pp. ISBN 9780691099842
• Jiang, Z.G., Ma, Y., Wu, Y., Wang, YX, Zhou, K.Y., Liu, S.Y. & Feng, Z.J. 2015. China’s Mammal Diversity and Geographic Distribution. Science Press: Beijing. 402 pp. ISBN 978-7-03-044620-6

Links

• Myotis pequinius in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.
• Feng, J. & Jiang, T.L. 2019. IUCN: Myotis pequinius  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T14190A22066613. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T14190A22066613.en
• China Species Information Service. 2008. Myotis pequinius. Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20210224200818/http://www.chinabiodiversity.com/; https://web.archive.org/web/20150801025703/http://baohu.org/.

Vernacular names

English: Peking Myotis