Myotis Kaup, 1829. Skizz. Entwickel.-Gesch. Nat. Syst. Europ. Thierwelt 1: 106.
Vespertilio myotis Borkhausen, 1797
Myotis alticraniatus Osgood, 1932.
Field Mus. Nat. Hist. 18: 232.
Indochinese Whiskered Myotis
alticraniatus Osgood, 1932:
thaianus Shamel, 1942.
Vietnam, Tonkin, Muong Moun
S China through N & E Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, N & C Thailand, and W Cambodia S to W Malaysia and Borneo
CITES - Not Listed IUCN - Not Evaluated (raised from synonymy).
References:
Osgood, W.H. 1932. Mammals of the Kelly-Roosevelts and Delacour Asiatic expeditions. Field Museum of Natural History. Publication 312 18(10): 193-339. Read article.
Ruedi, M., U. Saikia, A. Thabah, T. Görföl, and G. Csorba. 2021. Molecular and morphological revision of small Myotinae from the Himalayas shed new light on the poorly known genus Submyotodon (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Mammalian Biology 101: 465-480. Read article.
Tiunov, M.P., S. Liu, J. Feng, P. Soisook, and T. Jiang. 2025. A new species of Myotis from China with notes on the siligorensis species group (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). ZooKeys 1258: 333-356. Read article.
Formerly included in siligorensis as a valid subspecies, but distinct; see Ruedi et al. (2021). Includes thaianus; see Ruedi et al. (2021). Although Ruedi et al. (2021) also included badius in this species, we follow Tiunov et al. (2025) and consider badius as distinct. Specimens of siligorensis from the Malay peninsula and N Borneo that were not allocated to subspecies prior to the division of siligorensis, we regard as provisionally belonging to alticraniatus, pending further review.