Myotis horsfieldii Temminck 1840
Creators
- 1. Wildlife Biology and Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State 500007, India & Systematics, Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, Zoo Outreach Organization, 96, Kumudham Nagar, Vilankurichi Road, Coimbatore 641035, India & Corresponding author: E-mail: chelmalasrinivasulu @ gmail. com
- 2. Biodiversity Research and Conservation Society, 303 Nestcon Orchid, Kanajiguda, Tirumalgiri, Secunderabad, Telangana State 500015, India
- 3. Wildlife Biology and Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State 500007, India & Systematics, Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, Zoo Outreach Organization, 96, Kumudham Nagar, Vilankurichi Road, Coimbatore 641035, India
- 4. Wildlife Biology and Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State 500007, India
- 5. Harrison Institute, Bowerwood House, 15 St Botolph's Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN 13 3 AQ, United Kingdom
- 6. School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E 1 4 NS, United Kingdom
- 7. School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, University of Bristol, Bristol BS 8 1 TQ, United Kingdom
Description
18. Myotis horsfieldii Temminck, 1840 Horsfield’s Myotis
New records
Middle Andaman Islands: Bamboo Nullah, Baratang Island, Devpur and Nayadera; Little Andaman Island: V.K. Pur.
Previous records
Middle Andaman Islands: Webi (HZM); South Andaman Islands: Port Blair (Andersen, 1907; Hill, 1967).
Comments
The Andaman Island endemic subspecies is M. horsfieldii dryas Andersen, 1907. Out of the 15 individuals captured, eight specimens were collect- ed. Aul et al. (2014) reported the presence of this species from Point Island, Paget Island, North Reef Island, and Smith Island in North Andaman Islands; Interview Island in Middle Andaman Islands, and Little Andaman Island. The endemic subspecies varies from the mainland subspecies, M. h. peshwa, in its bacular morphology.
Echolocation Characteristics
A total of 556 calls were analysed from 12 species of echolocating bats (including a new phonotype of Hipposideros cf. pomona) from the Andaman Islands. Of these, 378 calls from seven species (R. andamanensis, R. cognatus, H. pomona, M. spasma, P. javanicus camortae, P. coromandra, and M. horsfieldii dryas) were analysed in Bat- Sound, and 187 calls from six species (H. cf. pomona, H. diadema masoni, H. cf. grandis, T. melanopogon, H. tickelli, and T. robustula) were analysed in AnalookW. Of all the calls analysed in BatSound, 100% of FM calls (Overall, Wilk’s λ = 0.001, P <0.001) and 100% of CF calls (Overall, Wilk’s λ = 0.002, P <0.001), and of all the calls analysed in AnalookW, 99% of FM calls (Overall, Wilk’s λ = 0.024, P <0.001) and 100% of CF calls (Overall, Wilk’s λ = 0.006, P <0.001) were accurately attributed to their respective species (Table 4).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Vespertilionidae
- Genus
- Myotis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Temminck
- Species
- horsfieldii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myotis horsfieldii Temminck, 1840 sec. Srinivasulu, Srinivasulu, Srinivasulu, Gopi, Dar, Bates, Rossiter & Jones, 2017
References
- ANDERSEN, K. 1907. Chiropteran notes. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova Giacomo Doria, 3, 43: 5 - 45.
- HILL, J. E. 1967. The bats of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 64: 1 - 9.
- AUL, B., P. J. J. BATES, D. L. HARRISON, and G. MARIMUTHU. 2014. Diversity, distribution and status of bats on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Oryx, 48: 204 - 212.