Myotis brandti (Eversmann, 1845). Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscow, 18:505.

TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, Orenburgsk. Obi., S. Ural, Bolshoi-Ik River, Spasskoie. Foothills of the Ural Mountains.

DISTRIBUTION: Britain to Kazakhstan, E Siberia including Sakhalin Isis, Kamchatka Peninsula and Kurile Isis (Russia), Mongolia south to Spain, Greece, Korea, and Ussuri region (Russia); Japan.

SYNONYMS: aureus, fujiensis, gracilis, sibiricus.

COMMENTS: Subgenus Selysius. Listed as a subspecies of mystacinus by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:139); but also see review by Strelkov and Buntova (1982). Includes fujiensis and gracilis, but see Yoshiyuki (1989).