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--> ORDER CHIROPTERA
--> FAMILY Vespertilionidae
--> SUBFAMILY Myotinae
--> GENUS Myotis
SPECIES Myotis punicus
Author: | Felten, Spitzenberger, and Storch, 1977. | Citation: | Senkenberg. Biol., 58: 39. | Common Name: | Maghrebian Myotis | Type Locality: | Tunisia, Cap Bon, El Haouaria Cave. | Distribution: | Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Malta, Corsica (France), and Sardinia (Italy). | Status: | IUCN 2003 – Not evaluated; not considered in IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001). | Comments: | Originally described as a subspecies of blythii, but recently shown to lie outside a clade including blythii, myotis, and oxygnathus; see Ruedi and Mayer (2001). Also see Borg (1998) and Castella et al. (2000). Accordingly, punicus is treated as a separate species here. |
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