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SPECIES Myotis volans

Author:H. Allen, 1866.
Citation:Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 18: 282.
Common Name:Long-legged Myotis
Type Locality:Mexico, Baja California, Cabo San Lucas.
Distribution:Jalisco to Veracruz (Mexico); Alaska Panhandle (USA) to Baja California (Mexico), east to N Nuevo León (Mexico), South Dakota (USA), and C Alberta (Canada).
Status:IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:Revised by Miller and Allen (1928). See Warner and Czaplewski (1984). Apparently closely related to lucifugus and thysanodes; see Ruedi and Mayer (2001).
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SUBSPECIES volans

SUBSPECIES amotus

SUBSPECIES interior

SUBSPECIES longicrus

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