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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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    cinnamomeus Wagner, 1855
    kinnamon Gervais, 1856

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