Myotis horsfieldii (Temminck, 1840)

Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu & John-James Wilson, 2017, A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library, PLoS ONE 12 (7), pp. 1-65 : 53-54

Myotis horsfieldii [Temminck, 1840]

Vespertilio horsfieldii Temminck, 1840: 226 ; Mount Gede , Java, INDONESIA (Collector unknown; Type unknown) [ 82].

Myotis horsfieldii [ 8].

Common English name: Horsfield’s Myotis

Barcode Index Number: BOLD:AAB9975 (1 DNA barcode from Peninsular Malaysia; Fig 6 )

Remarks: DNA barcodes recorded as M. horsfieldii are associated with four BINs, BOLD: AAB9973, BOLD:AAB9974, BOLD:AAB9975, and BOLD:ACH4644 ( Fig 6 ). Five subspecies have been described under M. horsfieldii : M. h. horsfieldii ( type locality: Java), M. h. dryas ( type locality: Andaman Islands), M. h. peshwa ( type locality: India), M. h. jeannei ( type locality: Philippines) and M. h. deignani ( type locality: Thailand) [ 98]. The form occurring in Peninsular Malaysia represents the M. h. horsfieldii [ 9].

IUCN status: Least Concern

Recorded at: Pahang: Krau Wildlife Reserve [ 11], Merapoh [ 40], Cameron Highland [ 60]; Pulau Pinang [ 23]; Kuala Lumpur: Ampang [ 23, 140]; Perak: Temengor Forest Reserve [ 46, 47]; Kelantan: Gunung Reng [ 62]; Terengganu: Bukit Dendong [ 97].

M. horsfieldii has been recorded roosting in limestone caves, in crevices of rocks and boulders, and foraging near forest streams to presumably skim insects from water surface [ 11, 14, 23].

Figures

Fig 6. Neighbour-joining tree showing all available DNA barcodes for species in family Vespertilionidae reported from Peninsular Malaysia. The percentage of pseudoreplicate trees (±70%) in which the DNA barcodes clustered together in the bootstrap test (500 pseudoreplicates) are shown above the branches. Abbreviation as follows: PM = Peninsular Malaysia,VN = Vietnam, BN = Borneo (including Sabah & Sarawak of East Malaysia, Brunei and Kalimantan Indonesia), TH = Thailand, LA = Laos, SM = Sumatera Indonesia, JV = Java Indonesia, CH = China, CM = Cambodia. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179555.g006