Myotis hermani Thomas 1923
Creators: name: Bumrungsri, Sara
name: Harrison, David L.
name: Satasook, Chutamas
name: Prajukjitr, Amorn
name: Thong-Aree, Siriporn
name: Bates, Paul J. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis
Myotis hermani

description: <i>Myotis hermani</i> Thomas 1923 Herman’s bat <i>Myotis hermani</i> Thomas 1923: 252; Sabang, north- west Sumatra. <i>New Material</i> PSU-M 05.1 (field no. SB040509.17), &amp;female;, 9 May 2004, Khuan Kaowang Forest Park, Rattaphum District, Songkhla Prov- ince, 07°00’00”N, 100°15’54”E, collected by Dorothea Pio and Teunchitr Sritong- choy. <i>Taxonomic Notes</i> The recent specimen from Thailand, with a forearm length of 60.0 mm (Table 4) and a condylo-canine length of 19.1 mm (Table 5), agrees in size and morphology with the holotype of <i>M. hermani</i> from Sumatra (61 mm and 19.5 mm, respective- ly). It is significantly larger than <i>Myotis formosus</i> (FA: 44.5–49.1 mm, <i>n</i> = 5 and CCL: 16.3–16.6 mm, <i>n</i> = 4; measurements listed in Bates and Harrison, 1997), which is the only other species of Asian <i>Myotis</i> cur- rently included in the subgenus <i>Chryso- pteron</i> (sensu Corbet and Hill, 1992). Size apart, it shares most of the external charac- ters exhibited by <i>M. formosus</i>. It has con- spicuously orange (of various hues) and black parti-coloured wings and interfemoral membrane (Fig. 2b). The ears are dark or- ange with black edges and have a concavity on the posterior border. The feet are not greatly enlarged. The hair roots are buff coloured and the tips orange, the latter frost- ed with black on both the dorsal and ventral aspects. Black frosting is not present in specimens of <i>M. formosus</i> seen from the Indian Subcontinent (Bates and Harrison, 1997) but the colouration is closely similar to that of an individual identified as <i>M. wa- tasei</i> (= <i>M. formosus</i> sensu Corbet and Hill, 1992; Simmons, 2005), a photograph of which is included in Lin <i>et al</i>. (2004). The skull and dentition are comparable to those of <i>M. formosus</i> (for details see Bates and Harrison, 1997) in all aspects except for their considerably larger size. Findley (1972) included <i>hermani</i> as a synonym of <i>M. formosus</i>, a view subse- quently followed by Koopman (1993). How- ever, Corbet and Hill (1992) argued that the size of <i>M. hermani</i> supports its specific dis- tinction, a view supported by the discovery of this recent specimen in Thailand. As such, <i>M. hermani</i> and <i>M. formosus</i> are here considered to be two distinct species. <i>Distribution and Ecological Notes</i> This is the first record from Thailand and appears to be the first confirmed record of this bat since it was described from a single adult female collected from north-west Sumatra (Thomas, 1923). The recent specimen, a mature fema- le, was captured in a mist net set over a seasonal small stream (5 m wide) in Khuan Kaowang Forest Park. The capture site was on the edge of secondary tropical lowland rain forest (ca. 350 ha at 100–200 m a.s.l.), which is characterized by many large standing trees and a dense shrub layer. It appeared that the bat, which was caught at 20:00 hours at a height of 1.5 m, was travelling from the forest to an area of rubber plantations and dry scrub woodland. Its body was covered with a 3 mm layer of fat. Possibly this was an energy reserve for the breeding period.
description: Published as part of <i>Bumrungsri, Sara, Harrison, David L., Satasook, Chutamas, Prajukjitr, Amorn, Thong-Aree, Siriporn &amp; Bates, Paul J. J., 2006, A review of bat research in Thailand with eight new species records for the country, pp. 325-359 in Acta Chiropterologica 8 (2)</i> on pages 344-346, DOI: 10.3161/1733-5329(2006)8[325:arobri]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/3944593
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