Eastern long-fingered bat

The eastern long-fingered bat, or big-footed myotis (Myotis macrodactylus) is a species of vesper bat. An adult big-footed myotis has a body length of 4.1-4.8 cm, a tail of 3.1-4.9 cm, and a wing length of 3.7-4.2 cm. It nests in groups, and favors caves, tunnels and abandoned mines. It can be found in Korea, Japan from the Amami Islands in the south to Hokkaido in the north, as well as in eastern Siberia and Sakhalin in Russia.

Eastern long-fingered bat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Myotis
Species:
M. macrodactylus
Binomial name
Myotis macrodactylus
Temminck, 1840

References

  1. Fukui, D.; Sun, K.; Kruskop, S.V. (2019). "Myotis macrodactylus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T14177A22065868.
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