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--> GENUS Myotis
SPECIES Myotis ruber
Author: | E. Geoffroy, 1806. | Citation: | Ann. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat. Paris, 8: 204. | Common Name: | Red Myotis | Type Locality: | Paraguay, Neembucu, Sapucay (neotype locality). | Distribution: | SE Brazil, SE Paraguay, NE Argentina. | Status: | IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Vulnerable. | Comments: | Does not include levis; revised by LaVal (1973a), who with Miller and Allen (1928) discussed the type. Reviewed in part by López-González et al. (2001). Apparently closely related to riparius; see Ruedi and Mayer (2001). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
cinnamomeus Wagner, 1855 kinnamon Gervais, 1856
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