CONTEXT AND CONTENT. Order Chiroptera, Suborder Microchiroptera, Family Vespertilionidae, Subfamily Vespertilioninae. The genus Myotis now includes approximately 80 species. Six subspecies of Myotis lucifugus are currently recognized. M. 1. alascensis Miller 1897:63. Type locality Sitka, Alaska. M. 1. carissima Thomas 1904:383, see above (altipetens Grinnell and albicinctus Allen are synonyms). M. 1. lucifugus (LeConte, in McMurtrie, 1831:431), see above (gryphus Cuvier, salarii Cuvier, crassus Cuvier, domesticus Green, lanceolatus Wied, carolii Temminck, virginianus Audubon and Bachman, brevirostris Wied, and affinis Allen are synonyms). M. 1. occultus Hollister, 1909:43, see above (baileyi Hollister is a synonym).