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Title: A New Long-eared Myotis (Myotis Evotis) From Northeastern Mexico

Author: Rollin H. Baker
J. Stains

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A New Long-eared Myotis (Myotis evotis)
from Northeastern Mexico

BY

ROLLIN H. BAKER AND HOWARD J. STAINS

=University of Kansas=
=Lawrence=
1955

=University of Kansas Publications=
=Museum of Natural History=

Vol. 9, No. 3,
pp. 81-84

December 10, 1955

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard,
Robert W. Wilson

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS

1955

25-8617

A New Long-eared Myotis (Myotis Evotis) From Northeastern Mexico

BY

ROLLIN H. BAKER AND HOWARD J. STAINS

Long-eared bats obtained by field parties from the University of Kansas
in the Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas, are found
to belong to the species, _Myotis evotis_, but are not referable to any
named subspecies. They are named and described as follows:

#Myotis evotis auriculus# new subspecies

_Type._--Female, adult, skin and skull; No. 55110, Univ. Kansas Mus.
Nat. Hist.; 10 mi. W and 2 mi. S Piedra, 1200 ft., Sierra de Tamaulipas,
Tamaulipas; 9 June 1953; obtained by Gerd H. Heinrich, original number
7061.

_Distribution._--Coastal foothills and adjacent mountains of
northeastern Mexico from central Coahuila south and east to central
Veracruz.

_Diagnosis._--Size medium (see measurements), ears small for the
species; color dark, upper parts (_j_14) Ochraceous-Tawny (color terms
are after Ridgway, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature, Washington,
D. C., 1912), underparts Warm Buff, ears pale; skull large, teeth large,
mandible long.

_Comparison._--From _Myotis evotis evotis_ (H. Allen), from Colorado,
Wyoming, and Montana, _M. e. auriculus_