Murina

For taxon author Murina, see Galena-Vantsetti V. Murina.

Murina beelzebub

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Vespertilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores 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: Metopophora Cladus: Haptodontiformes Cladus: Sphenacomorpha Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Pantherapsida Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Eutheriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Epicynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliamorpha Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Cladotheria Cladus: Prototribosphenida Cladus: Zatheria Cladus: Tribosphenida Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Cladus: Scrotifera Ordo: Chiroptera Subordo: Yangochiroptera Superfamilia: Vespertilionoidea

Familia: Vespertilionidae
Subfamilia: Murininae
Genus: Murina
Species (48): M. aenea – M. annamitica – M. aurata – M. balaensis – M. beelzebub – M. beibengensis – M. bicolor – M. chayuensis – M. chrysochaetes – M. cyclotis – M. duanjiao – M. eleryi – M. feae – M. fionae – M. florium – M. fusca – M. gracilis – M. guilleni – M. harpioloides – M. harrisoni – M. hilgendorfi – M. hkakaboraziensis – M. huttoni – M. jaintiana – M. jinchui – M. kontumensis – M. leucogaster – M. liboensis – M. lorelieae – M. maojiao – M. medogensis – M. milinensis – M. peninsularis – M. pluvialis – M. puta – M. recondita – M. rozendaali – M. rubella – M. ryukyuana – M. shuipuensis – M. suilla – M. tenebrosa – M. tubinaris – M. ussuriensis – M. walstoni – M. yadongensis – M. yuanyang – M. yushuensis

Name

Murina Gray, 1842: 258

• Type species: Vespertilio suillus Temminck, 1840, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Ocypetes Lesson, 1842: 30 [preoccupied by Ocypetes Risso, 1826; synonymized by Miller (1904: 229)]
  • Type species: Vespertilio suillus Temminck, 1840, by subsequent designation by Corbet & Hill (1992: 148).

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1842. Descriptions of some new genera and fifty unrecorded species of Mammalia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 1 10(65): 255–267. BHL Reference page. 
• Lesson, R.-P. 1842. Nouveau tableau du règne animal. Mammifères. Arthus Bertrand: Paris. 204 pp. MDZ Reference page. 
• Corbet, G.B. & Hill, J.E. 1992. The Mammals of the Indomalayan Region: a systematic review. Natural History Museum Puhl: London and Oxford University Press: Oxford. 488 pp. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Csorba, G. & Bates, P.J.J. 2005. Description of a new species of Murina from Cambodia (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: Murininae). Acta Chiropterologica 7(1): 1–7. DOI: 10.3161/1733-5329(2005)7[1:DOANSO]2.0.CO;2 Reference page. 
• Csorba, G., Thong, V.D., Bates, P.J.J. & Furey, N.M. 2007. Description of a new species of Murina from Vietnam (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: Murininae). Occasional Papers, Museum of Texas Tech University 268: 1–12. Reference page. 
• Kruskop, S.V. & Eger, J.L. 2008. A new species of tube-nosed bat Murina (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera) from Vietnam. Acta Chiropterologica 10(2): 213–220. DOI: 10.3161/150811008X414809 Reference page. 
• Furey, N.M., Thong, V.D., Bates, P.J.J. & Csorba, G. 2009. Description of a new species belonging to the Murina ‘suilla-group’ (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: Murininae) from north Vietnam. Acta Chiropterologica 11(2): 225–236. DOI: 10.3161/150811009X485477 Reference page. 
• Kuo, H.-C., Fang, Y.-P., Csorba, G. & Lee, L.-L. 2009. Three New Species of Murina (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Taiwan. Journal of Mammalogy 90(4): 980–991. DOI: 10.1644/08-MAMM-A-036.1 Reference page. 
• Eger, J.L. & Lim, B.K. 2011. Three New Species of Murina from Southern China (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Acta Chiropterologica 13(2): 227–243. DOI: 10.3161/150811011X624730 Reference page. 
• Csorba, G., Son, N.T., Saveng, I. & Furey, N.M. 2011. Revealing cryptic bat diversity: Three new Murina and redescription of M. tubinaris from Southeast Asia. Journal of Mammalogy 92(4): 891–904. DOI: 10.1644/10-MAMM-A-269.1 Reference page. 
• Francis, C.M. & Eger, J.L. 2012. A review of tube-nosed bats (Murina) from Laos with a description of two new species. Acta Chiropterologica 14(1): 15–38. DOI: 10.3161/150811012X654231 Reference page. 
• Ruedi, M., Biswas, J. & Csorba, G. 2012. Bats from the wet: two new species of tube-nosed bats (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Meghalaya, India. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 119(1): 111–135. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.150145 BHL Reference page. 
• Soisook, P., Karapan, S., Satasook, C. & Bates, P.J.J. 2013. A new species of Murina (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from peninsular Thailand. Zootaxa 3746(4): 567–579. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3746.4.4 Reference page. 
• Soisook, P., Karapan, S., Satasook, C., Thong, V.D., Khan, F.A.A., Maryanto, I., Csorba, G., Furey, N.M., Aul, B. & Bates, P.J.J. 2013. A review of the Murina cyclotis complex (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) with descriptions of a new species and subspecies. Acta Chiropterologica 15(2): 271–292. DOI: 10.3161/150811013X678928 Reference page. 
• Son, N.T., Motokawa, M., Oshida, T., Thong, V.D., Csorba, G. & Endo, H. 2015. Multivariate analysis of the skull size and shape in tube-nosed bats of the genus Murina (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Vietnam. Mammal Study 40(2): 79–94. DOI: 10.3106/041.040.0203 Reference page. 
• Son, N.T., Csorba, G., Tu, V.T., Thong, V.D., Wu, Y., Harada, M., Oshida, T., Endo, H. & Motokawa, M. 2015. A new species of the genus Murina (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the Central Highlands of Vietnam with a review of the subfamily Murininae in Vietnam. Acta Chiropterologica 17(2): 201–232. DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.2.001 Reference page. 
• He, F., Xiao, N. & Zhou, J. 2016. A New Species of Murina from China (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Cave Research 2(2): 1–4. Reference page. 
• Soisook, P., Thaw, W.N., Kyaw, M., Oo, S.S.L., Pimsai, A., Suarez-Rubio, M. & Renner, S.C. 2017. A New Species of Murina (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from sub-Himalayan Forests of northern Myanmar. Zootaxa 4320(1): 159–172. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4320.1.9. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Mou, X., Qian, Y., Li, M., Li, B., Luo, X. & Li, S. 2024. A new species of Murina (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Yunnan, China. Animals 14: 2371. DOI: 10.3390/ani14162371 Reference page. 
• Luo, P.-F., Mao, M.-L., Yan, C.-R., He, Q.-Q., Yang, Q., Deng, H.-Q., Xiao, N. & Zhou, J. 2025. A new species of the genus Murina (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) from the Southeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. Zoosystematics and Evolution 101(3): 983–997. DOI: 10.3897/zse.101.147349 Reference page. 

• Wang, X.-Y., Han, X.-S., Csorba, G., Wu, Y., Chen, H.-Q,, Zhao, X., Dong, Z.-Y., Yu, W.-H. & Lu, Z. [2024] 2025. A new species of Tube-nosed Bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: Murina) from Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, China. Journal of Mammalogy 106(1): 178–186. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyae104 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• English: Hairy-Winged/Tube-nosed Bats

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