A new species of Murina (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from sub-Himalayan forests of northern Myanmar

Soisook, Pipat; Thaw, Win Naing; Kyaw, Myint; Oo, Sai Sein Lin; Pimsai, Awatsaya; Suarez‐Rubio, Marcela; Renner, Swen C.

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“…In the disturbed forests of Kim Hy Nature Reserve, Viet Nam, which includes extensive limestone karst, 42 species were recorded, but the diversity of forest-interior bats is considerably lower, with five Murininae and two Kerivoulinae (Furey et al, 2010). In the watershed protection forest in the south-eastern Truong Son (Annamite Mountains), 20 species were recorded, including six forest-interior bats, one Kerivoulinae and five Murininae (Son et al, 2016). Although other areas in Viet Nam have a bat diversity comparable to that of the Hkakabo Razi Landscape (Put Mat with 39 species, Cuc Phuong with 38 species and Phong Nha with 32 species), the number of forest specialists is lower.…”

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Intact forests of the Hkakabo Razi Landscape are a hotspot of bat diversity in South-east Asia

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The Hkakabo Razi Landscape, in northern Kachin, Myanmar, is one of the largest remaining tracts of intact forest in South-east Asia. In 2016, we undertook a survey in its southern margins to assess bat diversity, distribution and ecology and evaluate the importance of the area for global bat conservation. Two collecting trips had taken place in the area in 1931 and 1933, with four bat species reported. We recorded 35 species, 18 of which are new for Kachin. One species, Murina hkakaboraziensis, was new to science and three, Megaerops niphanae, Phoniscus jagorii, Murina pluvialis, were new records for Myanmar. Our findings indicate high bat diversity in Hkakabo Razi; although it comprises only 1.7% of Myanmar's land area, it is home to 33.6% of its known bat species. This emphasizes Hkakabo Razi's importance for conserving increasingly threatened, forest-interior bats, especially in the families Kerivoulinae and Murininae. There is also a high diversity of other mammals and birds within the Hkakabo Razi Landscape, which supports its nomination as a World Heritage Site.

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“…Several new vertebrate species have also been recently described from this region, e.g. bats (Soisook et al 2017). Even in primates a new species of snub-nosed monkey has been recently described from the mountain ranges of north-eastern Kachin State near the border with China (Geissmann et al 2009).…”

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Pilot biodiversity assessment of the Hkakabo Razi passerine avifauna in northern Myanmar – implications for conservation from molecular genetics

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SummaryThe Hkakabo Razi region located in northern Myanmar is an Important Bird Area and part of the Eastern Himalayan Biodiversity Hotspot. Within the framework of the World Heritage Convention to enlist the site under criterion (ix) and (x), we conducted a biodiversity assessment for passerine birds using DNA barcoding and other molecular markers. Of the 441 bird species recorded, we chose 16 target species for a comparative phylogeographic study. Genetic analysis was performed for a larger number of species and helped identifying misidentified species. We found phylogeographic structure in all but one of the 16 study species. In 13 species, populations from northern Myanmar were genetically distinctive and local mitochondrial lineages differed from those found in adjacent regions by 3.9–9.9% uncorrected genetic distances (cytochrome-b). Since the genetic distinctiveness of study populations will be corroborated by further differences in morphology and song as in other South-East Asian passerines, many of them will be candidates for taxonomic splits, or in case an older taxon name is not available, for the scientific description of new taxa. Considering the short time frame of our study we predict that a great part of undetected faunal diversity in the Hkakabo Razi region will be discovered.

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“…Sixty-nine Zootaxa studies described 76 new living mammals (see Appendix I), including Niviventer pianmaensis, which was described as a subspecies (Li & Yang 2009), and Conilurus capricornensis, which was described from cave material but is thought to still be extant (Cramb & Hocknull 2010). The vast majority of studies (Figure 5) employed an integrative approach, with a combination of two or more types of data, including detailed comparative anatomy analyses, especially of cranial, dental, and integumental anatomy, but also bacular (e.g., Goodman et al 2017;Kruskop et al 2019); morphometric multivariate analyses, based mainly on craniometric traditional measurements using principal component and discriminant analyses, but also employing MANOVA (Goodman et al 2015) or using a geometric morphometrics approach (Cucchi et al 2006;Taylor et al 2011); phylogenetic analyses of molecular sequence data, especially cytochrome b, but also cytochrome oxidase 1, d-loop, ribosomal 12s and 15s, ND2, and nuclear loci such as IRBP and RAG1; classic cytogenetics, especially for rodents but also used in the description of the vespertilionid bat Laephotis stanleyi (Goodman et al 2017); and comparative echolocation analyses for bats (e.g., Reardon et al 2008;Soisook et al 2013Soisook et al , 2015Soisook et al , 2017Goodman et al 2011Goodman et al , 2015Puechmaille et al 2014). Other sources of data less commonly employed in species descriptions were allozymes (Reardon et al 2008;Verheyen et al 2011), microsatellites (Puechmaille et al 2014;Ralph et al 2015), and niche modeling (Ralph et al 2015).…”

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The role and impact of Zootaxa in mammalogy in its first 20 years

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Zootaxa came as a new and innovative publication medium for taxonomy, amidst a scenario of devaluation of this important biological science. After 20 years, it has ascertained itself as one of the main journals in animal taxonomy. However, the contribution of the journal to the taxonomy of Mammalia (mammals), one of the most studied groups of animals with a long-standing, dedicated spectrum of specialized journals (mammalogy), could have been expected as minor. All the current and former editors of the Mammalia section of Zootaxa analyzed the relative contribution of the journal to the description of new species of mammals since 2001. We also analyzed the contribution of Zootaxa by taxon, geographic origin of taxa, and geographic origin of first authors. The taxonomic methodology of authors in species description is described as well as the temporal trends in publications and publication subjects. We highlight the editors’ picks and eventually, the challenges for the future. We found that Zootaxa has had a significant contribution to mammalogy, being the second journal (the first being Journal of Mammalogy) in terms of number of new species described (76; 10.6% of the new mammalian species described between 2001 and 2020). The majority of the new species were described following an integrative taxonomic approach with at least two sources of data (86%). The analysis of published taxa, their geographic origin, and the country of origin of first authors shows a wide coverage and exhaustive representation, except for the species from the Nearctic. We conclude that Zootaxa has likely responded to a repressed demand for an additional taxonomic journal in mammalogy, with as possible appeals the absence of publication fees and an established publication speed. With 246 articles published in the past 20 years, the Mammalia section of Zootaxa embraces a large spectrum of systematic subjects going beyond alpha taxonomy. The challenges for the future are to encourage publications of authors from the African continent, still poorly represented, and from the palaeontology community, as the journal has been open to palaeontology since its early days.

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A new species of Murina (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from sub-Himalayan forests of northern Myanmar

Cited by 508 publications

References 13 publications

Intact forests of the Hkakabo Razi Landscape are a hotspot of bat diversity in South-east Asia

Intact forests of the Hkakabo Razi Landscape are a hotspot of bat diversity in South-east Asia

Pilot biodiversity assessment of the Hkakabo Razi passerine avifauna in northern Myanmar – implications for conservation from molecular genetics

The role and impact of Zootaxa in mammalogy in its first 20 years

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