A new species of Myotis from China with notes on the siligorensis species group (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae)
On the basis of molecular and morphological studies of samples collected in China, a new <i>Myotis</i> species belonging to the <i>siligorensis</i> group is described, <i>Myotis kalkoae</i> Tiunov, Jiang, & Liu, <b>sp. nov.</b> The species rank of <i>M. sowerbyi</i> and <i>M. alticraniatus</i> was confirmed. All three taxa under consideration belong to different genetic lines and can be distinguished from each other and from other morphologically similar species based on the shape of their baculum and tragus. The difficulties of taxonomy within the <i>M. siligorensis</i> species group are discussed.
Authors
- Pipat Soisook (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1404-3568)
- Tinglei Jiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3858-9458)
- Jiang Feng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7503-1069)
- Mikhail P. Tiunov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4276-4266)
- Sen Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2258-3676)
Institutions
- Prince of Songkla University (TH)
- Northeast Normal University (CN)
- Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity FEB RAS (RU)
- Henan Normal University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ZooKeys
- Published
- 2025-11-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1258.145290
- Primary Topic
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation