Murina cyclotis Dobson, 1872

Struebig, Matthew J., Rossiter, Stephen J., Bates, Paul J. J., Kingston, Tigga, Oo, Sai Sein Lin, Nwe, Aye Aye, Aung, Moe Moe, Win, Sein Sein & Mya, Khin Mya, 2005, Results of a recent bat survey in Upper Myanmar including new records from the Kachin forests, Acta Chiropterologica 7 (1), pp. 147-163 : 158

Murina cyclotis Dobson, 1872

Round-eared tube-nosed bat

New material

Kachin State: Madanyan Forest, 12.4. 2003, 1 ♂ (MA030411:1).

Previous records from Myanmar

Kachin State ( Anthony, 1941 and Bates and Harrison, 1997); Chin State ( Bates and Harrison, 1997).

Comments

The recent specimen from Myanmar is comparable in size ( Tables 1 and 2) to those from India included in Bates and Harrison (1997) and following Corbet and Hill

(1992) is referred to the nominate race M. c. cyclotis. The hairs of the dorsal pelage have orange-brown tips, with mid-grey roots; the ventral surface is pale creamy-brown with grey hair roots. The ears are broadly round- ed and without an emargination on their posterior borders. In the lower dentition, P 2 is about equal in crown area to the trigonid of M 1. This species is considered a forest specialist and is known to actively avoid mist nets ( Kingston et al., 2003). The recent specimen from Kachin is the first to be col- lected in Myanmar since the Vernay-Cutting Expedition of 1938–39 ( Anthony, 1941).