Japanese Noctule

About this species

Range

Japan

The Japanese noctule, Nyctalus furvus, is a vesper bat described by Imaizumi and Yoshiyuki in 1968. Current species accounts regard it as endemic to Japan. A systematic comparison found it smaller than the widespread common noctule and a Chinese noctule then called N. velutinus, with differences in skull and tooth characters. Chromosome research also distinguishes it from the bird-like noctule, although the two belong to the same broader noctule group (Japanese Chiroptera systematic study; Wikipedia, general species account).

Because the documented native range is Japanese, its presence in the Korean catalogue requires verification against a specimen or current national checklist. The opened sources do not support a Korean locality, resident population, habitat, diet or breeding account. They also note uncertainty about its precise phylogenetic position, while chromosome similarities suggest a possible relationship with Leisler's bat. This profile therefore records the taxon without converting an uncertain catalogue occurrence into an unsupported Korean natural-history claim (Burgin et al. species treatment; Japanese Chiroptera studies).

Description: Wildlife of Korea guide, Wildlife of Everywhere (wildlifeofeverywhere.com); general species information paraphrased from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)