Myotis horsfieldii Temminck 1840

• Main Authors: Srinivasulu, Chelmala, Srinivasulu, Aditya, Srinivasulu, Bhargavi, Gopi, Asad, Dar, Tauseef Hamid, Bates, Paul J. J., Rossiter, Stephen J., Jones, Gareth
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Vespertilionidae; Myotis; Myotis horsfieldii; Bates; Blair; Genova; Bombay; Smith Island; Pomona; Reef Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4334577; https://zenodo.org/record/4334577

18. Myotis horsfieldii Temminck, 1840 Horsfield’s Myotis New records Middle Andaman Islands: Bamboo Nullah, Baratang Island, Devpur and Nayadera; Little Andaman Island: V.K. Pur. Previous records Middle Andaman Islands: Webi (HZM); South Andaman Islands: Port Blair (Andersen, 1907; Hill, 1967). Comments The Andaman Island endemic subspecies is M. horsfieldii dryas Andersen, 1907. Out of the 15 individuals captured, eight specimens were collect- ed. Aul et al. (2014) reported the presence of this species from Point Island, Paget Island, North Reef Island, and Smith Island in North Andaman Islands; Interview Island in Middle Andaman Islands, and Little Andaman Island. The endemic subspecies varies from the mainland subspecies, M. h. peshwa , in its bacular morphology. Echolocation Characteristics A total of 556 calls were analysed from 12 species of echolocating bats (including a new phonotype of Hipposideros cf. pomona ) from the Andaman Islands. Of these, 378 calls from seven species ( R. andamanensis , R. cognatus , H. pomona , M. spasma , P. javanicus camortae , P. coromandra , and M. horsfieldii dryas ) were analysed in Bat- Sound, and 187 calls from six species ( H. cf. pomona , H. diadema masoni , H. cf. grandis , T. melanopogon , H. tickelli , and T. robustula ) were analysed in AnalookW. Of all the calls analysed in BatSound, 100% of FM calls (Overall, Wilk’s λ = 0.001, P <0.001) and 100% of CF calls (Overall, Wilk’s λ = 0.002, P <0.001), and of all the calls analysed in AnalookW, 99% of FM calls (Overall, Wilk’s λ = 0.024, P <0.001) and 100% of CF calls (Overall, Wilk’s λ = 0.006, P <0.001) were accurately attributed to their respective species (Table 4). : Published as part of Srinivasulu, Chelmala, Srinivasulu, Aditya, Srinivasulu, Bhargavi, Gopi, Asad, Dar, Tauseef Hamid, Bates, Paul J. J., Rossiter, Stephen J. & Jones, Gareth, 2017, Recent surveys of bats from the Andaman Islands, India: diversity, distribution, and echolocation characteristics, pp. 419-437 in Acta Chiropterologica 19 (2) on pages 432-433, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2017.19.2.018, http://zenodo.org/record/3942489 : {"references": ["ANDERSEN, K. 1907. Chiropteran notes. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova Giacomo Doria, 3, 43: 5 - 45.", "HILL, J. E. 1967. The bats of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 64: 1 - 9.", "AUL, B., P. J. J. BATES, D. L. HARRISON, and G. MARIMUTHU. 2014. Diversity, distribution and status of bats on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Oryx, 48: 204 - 212."]}