A new subspecies of Myotis mystacinus(Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera) from East Asia Sergey V. KRUSKOP and Alex V. BORISSENKO Kruskop S. V. and Borissenko A. V. 1996 The whiskered bat Myotis mystacinus (Kuhl, 1817) is widely distributed throughout Mongolia (Allen 1938, Sokolov and Orlov 1980, Sokolov et al. 1985. The majority of authors refer M. mystacinus from this region to either M. mys tacinus przewalskii Bobrinskoy, 1926 (eg Sokolov andOrlov 1980) or to M. m. mystacinus sensu Kuzyakin (1950), ie including M. brandtii gracilis Ognev, 1927(Bannikov 1954, which is also represented in the Mongolian bat fauna. While the central Asian whiskered bats have been divided into three subspecies (Kuzyakin 1965), the question of treating the east Mongolian specimens as a different taxon has never actually been raised. Discussing the relationships of M. mystacinus and M. brandtii, Strelkov (1983) considers all whiskered bats from Kazakhstan, central Asia, China and Mongolia to be one geographic form, M. mystacinus przewalskii Bobrinskoy, 1926. He notes that in the eastern part of the distribution range of M. mystacinus the specimens slightly differ from typical M. m. przewalskii, particularly by larger size, whereas the west Mongolian bats are quite similar to the central Asian ones. However, Strelkov (1983) does not treat them as a separate subspecies.An analysis of external and cranial morphology of Myotis mystacinus specimens from eastern Mongolia and eastern Transbaikalia (mainly Chitinskaya region) has shown them to possess certain morphological peculiarities that set them apart
The first record of Tragulus versicolor Thomas, 1910 outside its type locality is described. One specimen was collected in the vicinity of Dak Rong and Boun Luoi, ~20 km north of Kan Nack (Gia Lai Province, Central Vietnam), collected in 1990 and deposited in the Zoological Museum of Moscow University. Peculiar external characters (pelage coloration pattern) indicate its authenticity from the sympatrically occurring T. kanchil (Raffles, 1821). Certain aspects of morphological differences between the two species and conservation issues relevant to the new finding are being discussed.
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