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Myotis bechsteinii  (Kuhl, 1817)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 946238

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s): Myotis bechsteini (Kuhl, 1817)
  
    Vespertilio bechsteinii Kuhl, 1817
  
  Common Name(s): Bechstein's Myotis [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassMammalia Linnaeus, 1758 – mammifères, mamífero, mammals  
                         SubclassTheria Parker and Haswell, 1897  
                            InfraclassEutheria Gill, 1872  
                               OrderChiroptera Blumenbach, 1779 – morcego, quiróptero, bats  
                                  SuborderYangochiroptera Koopman, 1984  
                                     SuperfamilyVespertilionoidea Gray, 1821  
                                        FamilyVespertilionidae Gray, 1821 – vesper bats, vespertilionid bats, evening bats  
                                           SubfamilyMyotinae Tate, 1942 – myotis bats  
                                              GenusMyotis Kaup, 1829 – mouse-eared bats  
                                                 SubgenusMyotis (Myotis) Kaup, 1829  
                                                    SpeciesMyotis bechsteinii (Kuhl, 1817) – Bechstein's Myotis  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Benda, Petr, Kaveh Faizolâhi, Michal Andreas, Ján Obuch, Antonín Reiter, Martin Sevcik, et al.   
  Publication Date: 2012   
  Article/Chapter Title: Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 10. Bat fauna of Iran   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae, vol. 76   
  Page(s): 163-582   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1211-376X   
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  Reference for: Myotis bechsteinii   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Simmons, Nancy B. / Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds.   
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title: Order Chiroptera   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2   
  Page(s): 312-529   
  Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press   
  Publication Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-8221-4   
  Notes: Corrections were made to text at 3rd printing   
  Reference for: Myotis bechsteinii, Bechstein's Myotis [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Wilson, D. E., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds.   
  Publication Date: 2019   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Handbook of the Mammals of the World. 9. Bats   
  Page(s): 1008   
  Publisher: Lynx Edicions   
  Publication Place: Barcelona, Spain   
  ISBN/ISSN: 978-84-16728190   
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  Reference for: Myotis bechsteinii, Bechstein's Myotis [English]   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China)  
       
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 Comments
       
  Comment: Status: IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) - Vulnerable  
    Comments: For discussion of correct spelling (bechsteinii, not bechsteini) see Bogdanowicz and Kock (1998). Apparently closely related to daubentonii; see Ruedi and Mayer (2001). Reviewed by Horácek et al. (2000) and Baagøe (2001a)  
 

 

    


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