Mammals of the WorldNepalese Whiskered Myotis
Myotis muricola
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Vespertilionidae
- Genus
- Myotis
- IUCN status
- LC
- Distribution
- Nepal|India|Bhutan|Myanmar|China|Thailand|Laos|Vietnam|Cambodia|Malaysia|Singapore|Indonesia|Brunei|Philippines
- Realm
- Indomalaya|Palearctic|Australasia
Other names: Nepalese Whiskered Bat|Whiskered Bat
About this species
The wall-roosting mouse-eared bat, or Nepalese whiskered myotis, is a vesper bat whose type locality is Nepal. The fur is brown or grey above with dark bases, and on the underside has dark bases and light brown tips. The ears are moderately long, slender, bent forwards and bluntly pointed, and the long tail is fully enclosed in the interfemoral membrane (Wikipedia, general species account). It drinks by swooping low over water or by collecting droplets from the roofs of the tunnels or caves in which it roosts (Wikipedia, general species account). (Wikipedia, general species account).
It is nocturnal and insectivorous, and tends to feed during the first two hours after sunset and before dawn, using ultrasonic echolocation. Myotis muricola is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam (Simmons, 2005). Myotis muricola is a nocturnal and insectivorous bat. It tends to feed during the first two hours after sunset and before dawn, using ultrasonic echolocation (Richardson, 1993). (Wikipedia, general species account).
Description: Wildlife of sulawesi guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)