Kerivoula muscina

Tate, 1941

Fly River Woolly Bat

Also as Fly River Trumpet-eared Bat.
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Location:Indonesia, Southwest Papua (formerly Irian Jaya Barat) province, Sorong regency, MalagufukDate taken:14 June 2023Description:Also as Fly River Trumpet-eared Bat.

Distribution :

C New Guinea.

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 6950

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Chiroptera
Suborder: Yangochiroptera
Superfamily: Vespertilionoidea
Family: Vespertilionidae
Subfamily: Kerivoulinae
Genus: Kerivoula

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Tate, G.H.H. 1941-12-31. Notes on vespertilionid bats of the subfamilies Miniopterinae, Murininae, Kerivoulinae, and Nyctophilinae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 78(9):567-597.

Authority publication link

https://hdl.handle.net/2246/1782

Original name as described

Kerivoula muscina

Other common names

Fly River Trumpet-eared Bat

Type material

AMNH M-105315

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/amnh/mammals?id=urn-catalog-amnh-mammals-m-105315

Type locality

Lake Daviumbu, 6 miles [= 9.7 km] above mouth of Strickland River, middle Fly River, Western Division [= Province], Papua [New Guinea]; altitude approximately 20 meters."

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Papua New Guinea · Indonesia?

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005300

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 1 name and synonym.

Kerivoula muscina

Tate, 1941

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

muscina

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

AMNH M-105315

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

Lake Daviumbu, 6 miles above mouth of Strickland River, middle Fly River, Western Division, Papua; altitude approximately 20 meters

Type locality

Papua New Guinea: Western Province.

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/amnh/mammals?id=urn-catalog-amnh-mammals-m-105315

Authority page

586

Authority publication

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Name usages

Laurie & Hill (1954:76, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49635616) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/31868)
Corbet & Hill (1980:76) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:179) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
Corbet & Hill (1991:85) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Koopman (1993:197) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69007)
Koopman (1994:98) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #10979) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #10979) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:901) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005300) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/10979/209536068) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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