Three new species of MURINA (chiroptera: vespertilionidae) from Taiwan

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 980-991

  Kuo, Hao Chih ^a   Fang, Yin Ping ^b   Csorba, Gabor ^c   Lee, Ling Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Identification key; Morphology; Morphometric measurements; Murina; Murininae; New species; Taiwan; Taxonomy; Tube nosed bats; Type specimens

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIOGEOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MORPHOMETRY; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; SKULL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

TAIWAN;

CHIROPTERA; MURINA; MURINA LEUCOGASTER; MURININAE; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 77249088257     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/08-MAMM-A-036.1     Document Type: Article

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