Myotis ater
Creators: name: Voon-Ching Lim
name: Rosli Ramli
name: Bhassu, Subha
name: John-James Wilson
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis
Myotis ater

description: <i>Myotis ater</i> [Peters, 1866] <i>Vespertilio ater</i> Peters, 1866: 18; Ternate Island, Moluccas, INDONESIA (Collector unknown; Type unknown) [212] <i>Myotis ater</i> [9]. <b>Common English name:</b> Peters’s Myotis <b>Barcode Index Number:</b> A DNA barcode recorded as <i>M</i>. cf. <i>ater</i> (BM487-04) is from Peninsular Malaysia but is not associated with any BIN due to its short sequence length (<i>&lt;</i> 500 bp). Other DNA barcodes recorded as <i>M</i>. <i>ater</i> are associated with the BIN, BOLD:AAA8748. <b>Remarks:</b> The only BIN (BOLD:AAA8748) that is associated with <i>M</i>. <i>ater</i> also contains DNA barcodes recorded as <i>M</i>. <i>muricola</i> (Fig 6). These taxa were previously considered to be conspecific [213] but Francis and Hill [214] recognised two species occuring sympatrically in Malaysia, and commented that specimens from Peninsular Malaysia recorded as <i>M</i>. <i>ater</i> are larger than <i>M</i>. <i>ater</i> from elsewhere. As <i>M</i>. <i>muricola</i> is putatively a species complex (refer to remarks on <i>M</i>. <i>muricola</i>), further studies of <i>M</i>. <i>ater</i> and <i>M</i>. <i>muricola</i> are required to resolve the relationship between these taxa. <b>IUCN status:</b> Least Concern <b>Recorded at: Pahang</b>: Krau Wildlife Reserve [11], Cameron Highland [60]; <b>Perak</b>: Bukit Jerneh Cave and Tumang Lembing Cave [30]; <b>Kedah</b>: Ulu Muda Forest Reserve [57]. <i>M</i>. <i>ater</i> has been reported roosting in caves, either solitarily or in small colonies and recorded foraging in open areas such as gaps created by fallen trees, midstorey openings and forest edge [11, 14].
description: Published as part of <i>Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu &amp; John-James Wilson, 2017, A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library, pp. 1-65 in PLoS ONE 12 (7)</i> on pages 51-52, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179555, http://zenodo.org/record/4251352
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