First Records ofMyotis altarium(Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from India and Vietnam

Description of Echolocation Call Parameters for Urban Bats in Vietnam as a Step Towards a More Integrated Acoustic Monitoring of Urban Wildlife in Southeast Asia

“…Vietnam is a country with a large diversity of bat species, counting about 120 species in the last comprehensive review [1]. Owing to the taxonomic description of new species previously unknown to the scientific community, the number of species observed for Vietnam has continuously increased over the past years (e.g., [2][3][4][5][6]). Thus far, the Vietnamese bat fauna has been mostly studied in natural habitats and protected areas [7][8][9].…”

DNA Barcoding and Morphological Analyses Reveal a Cryptic Species of Miniopterus from India and Sri Lanka

“…In the only previous study to use molecular techniques to assess the taxonomic status of bats in Sri Lanka, Mapatuna et al (2002) confirmed the existence of two distinct species of Cynopterus in the country. The use of DNA barcoding and detailed morphological and morphometric analysis has accelerated the rate of species discovery in East and Southeast Asia (Soisook et al, 2015(Soisook et al, , 2016(Soisook et al, , 2017Kuo et al, 2017;Ruedi et al, 2017;Tu et al, 2018;Yu et al, 2020) and to a lesser extent in South Asia (Ruedi et al, 2012b;Saikia et al, 2017;Srinivasulu et al, 2018Srinivasulu et al, , 2019Thong et al, 2018;Chakravarty et al, 2020). Genetic studies on Indian and Sri Lankan bats is yet to catch up when compared to those in neighboring regions (Saikia, 2018).…”

Taxonomic and ecological notes on some poorly known bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Meghalaya, India

“…While some distribution information on the bat species of Meghalaya is available (Ruedi et al 2012b;Saikia et al 2018), taxonomic and ecological information is scant (Sinha 1999a). A number of bat TT species like Eptesicus pachyotis, Myotis horsfieldii, or Scotomanes ornatus are known from Meghalaya only by old records, while a few like M. niphanae, Hypsugo joffrei, K. kachinensis, M. magnater, M. pusillus, M. pilosus or M. altarium have only recently been recorded from the state (Ruedi et al 2012a,b;Saikia et al 2017Saikia et al , 2018Thong et al 2018). Among these newly recorded bats from Meghalaya, K. kachinensis, M. magnater, and M. pilosus are not known from any other parts of India.…”

“…Thus, the state with abundant caves especially in the limestone belt offers plentiful roosting opportunities for cave roosting bats. Indeed, 65 species of bats have been recorded so far from the state, including several recent discoveries resulting from explorations conducted during the above-mentioned caving project (Ruedi et al 2012a,b;Saikia et al 2017Saikia et al , 2018Thong et al 2018). Some older records from the state pertain to exceptionally rare species, such as Eptesicus tatei or E. pachyotis which have hardly been reported again in India since their discovery (Bates & Harrison 1997;Mandal et al 2000), and several additions to the list emerged from a critical re-examination of vouchered specimens of apparently widespread taxa, such as those in the Murina cyclotis group (Ruedi et al 2012a).…”