Bats of the World

A Taxonomic and Geographic Database

Compiled and Edited by:
Nancy B. Simmons and Andrea L. Cirranello
American Museum of Natural History

Your search for Myotis alticraniatus resulted in 1 species-level match:

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:

 badius Tiunov, Kruskop & Feng, 2011;

 thaianus Shamel, 1942.

Vietnam, Tonkin, Muong Moun

S China (Yunnan) through N & E Myanmar, N & C Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and W Cambodia

CITES - Not Listed IUCN - Not Evaluated (raised from synonymy).

Formerly included in siligorensis as a valid subspecies, but distinct; see Ruedi et al. (2021). Includes thaianus and badius; see Ruedi et al. (2021). 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.

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.