Burmese Whiskered Bat - Myotis montivagus
( Dobson, 1874 )

 

 

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Subspecies: Unknown
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CITES Status: NOT LISTED
IUCN Status: Data Deficient
U.S. ESA Status: NOT LISTED

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Habitat:
In Laos, the species has been collected in hill forests at 1,000 m a.s.l. and in open forest at 500 m a.s.l. (Francis et al. 1996, in Duckworth et al. 1999). In Vietnam, the species has been recorded in heavily disturbed agricultural landscapes, at about 200 m a.s.l. In North Vietnam it has been captured in primary forests at 1,092 m and 1,342 m a.s.l. (Görföl and Tu pers. comm.) In Myanmar it is known from around 1,850 m a.s.l. (Bates et al. 2005). A Chinese specimen was captured at 1,450 m a.s.l. in Yunnan (Csorba pers. comm.).

Range:
The type locality is in Yunnan, South China. It has been recorded in Vietnam (Kruskop and Shchinov 2010, Kruskop 2013, Görföl and Tu pers. comm.), Myanmar (BM(NH) collection). Some records of M. montivagus sensu lato from Laos (tentatively named as Myotis sp E, see Francis et al. 1999, Thomas et al. 2013) are also referable to this species.

Conservation:
It has been recorded from protected areas including Hoang Lien Son NP and Xuan Lien NR in Viet Nnam [Borissenko and Kruskop 2003(Kruskop and Shchinov 2010, Görföl and Tu pers. comm.) and Shiwandashan NR in Laos ]).

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