Myotis vivesi

Menegaux, 1901

Fish-eating Myotis

Taken on Puritan Expedition. Also as Fish-eating Bat.
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Location:Mexico, Gulf of CaliforniaDate taken:1 May 1957Description:Taken on Puritan Expedition. Also as Fish-eating Bat.

Distribution :

Coast of Sonora and Baja California (Mexico), chiefly on small islands.

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 4157

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Chiroptera
Suborder: Yangochiroptera
Superfamily: Vespertilionoidea
Family: Vespertilionidae
Subfamily: Myotinae
Genus: Myotis
Subgenus: Pizonyx

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Menegaux, A. 1901. Description d'une variété et d'une espèce nouvelles de Chiroptères rapportées du Mexique par M. Diguet. Bulletin du Muséum d'histoire naturelle 7:321-327.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5029230

Original name as described

Myotis Vivesi

Other common names

Fish-eating Bat

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1907.6.19.1, MNHN-ZM-MO-1901-613 (= MNHN:type:207)

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1901-613 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/31b9cdd3-f7cb-44f8-b799-1f02cbdab5aa https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/abc5d4f9-be71-47be-a619-b8d5d2d16c3a

Type locality

Isla Partida, Baja California, Mexico.

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic

Country distribution

Mexico

IUCN Red List status

Vulnerable

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005482

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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: 2 names and synonyms.

Myotis Vivesi

Menegaux, 1901

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

vivesi

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1907.6.19.1, MNHN-ZM-MO-1901-613 (= MNHN:type:207)

Type kind

syntypes

Original type locality

Ilot du Cardonal ou Islo, partie de l'Archipel Salsi puedes, au nord du golfe de Californie.

Type locality

Mexico: Baja California: 28°53′N, 113°4′W.

Type specimen URI

http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/zm/mo-1901-613 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/31b9cdd3-f7cb-44f8-b799-1f02cbdab5aa https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/abc5d4f9-be71-47be-a619-b8d5d2d16c3a

Authority page

323

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5029230

Authority publication

Bulletin du Muséum d'histoire naturelle

Name usages

Trouessart (1904:94, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53422923) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
Hall (1981:208) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35036)
Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:192) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
Sevilla García (1988:160) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/11366)
Koopman (1993:216) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69007)
Koopman (1994:109) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #14209) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #14209) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:935) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005482) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/14209/22069146) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Pizonyx vivesi:

G. S. Miller, 1906

Family

Vespertilionidae

Root name

vivesi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

85

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2348063

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Name usages

Miller (1906:85, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2348063) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15504)
Corbet & Hill (1980:66) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Corbet & Hill (1991:73) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)

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