page_title: List of mammals of New England
section_title: Vesper bats, family Vespertilionidae
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of New England / Bats, order Chiroptera / Vesper bats, family Vespertilionidae
caption_attribution_description: English: This original of this image of the endangered en:Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) is found at: [1] It is specifically captioned "USFWS photo."
context_page_description: There are 7 orders, 17 families, 40 genera, and 60 species represented among the mammals of New England. If extirpated, coastal, introduced, and accidental species are included these numbers increase to 8 orders, 26 families, 67 genera, and 105 species. The region includes the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
  The makeup and distribution of the mammals in New England are largely the result of the Last Glacial Maximum when the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered virtually the entire region. Recolonization of the area appears to have occurred from one or a few southern glacial refugia. This is in contrast to the multiple glacial refugia present throughout the American West. As a consequence of both the recent uninhabitability and the few sources of recolonization, species diversity for some taxa in parts of New England are lower than in similar areas in other parts of North America. Chipmunks and ground squirrels are exemplars of this situation. New England has one species of each, but numerous locations west of the Rocky Mountains host several species.
  Habitat varies throughout the region.
context_section_description: Eastern small-footed bat, Myotis leibii
  Distribution: Central Maine, central New Hampshire, central Vermont, western Massachusetts.
  Status: Endangered in New Hampshire; Threatened in Vermont (Whitaker and Hamilton, 1998).
  Little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus
  Distribution: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
  Subspecies: Myotis lucifugus lucifugus according to Hall (1981) and Whitaker and Hamilton (1998).
  Northern long-eared bat, Myotis septentrionalis
  Distribution: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
  Indiana bat, Myotis sodalis
  Distribution: Southeastern and central New Hampshire, southern and central Vermont, western and central Massachusetts, all but southern Connecticut, northeastern Rhode Island.
  Status: Federally endangered (Whitaker and Hamilton, 1998).
  Silver-haired bat, Lasionycteris noctivagans
  Distribution (summer): Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, northern and central Massachusetts.
  Distribution (winter): Southeastern Connecticut.
  Eastern pipistrelle, Perimyotis subflavus
  Distribution: Southern New Hampshire, all but northeastern Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
  Subspecies: Perimyotis subflavus subflavus according to Hall (1981) and Whitaker and Hamilton (1998).
  Big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus
  Distribution: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
  Subspecies: Eptesicus fuscus fuscus according to Hall (1981) and Whitaker and Hamilton (1998).
  Eastern red bat, Lasiurus borealis
  Distribution (summer): Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
  Subspecies: Lasiurus borealis borealis according to Hall (1981) and Whitaker and Hamilton (1998).
  Hoary bat, Lasiurus cinereus
  Distribution (summer, predominantly females): Northern Maine, all but southeastern New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts.
  Subspecies: Lasiurus cinereus cinereus according to Hall (1981) and Whitaker and Hamilton (1998).
caption: Indiana bat
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