Eudiscopus_denticulus

Disk-footed bat

Disk-footed bat

Species of bat

The disk-footed bat (Eudiscopus denticulus) is a species of vesper bat in the Vespertilionidae family found in Laos and Myanmar. The disc-footed bat was recorded in 2021 in the Lailad area of the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, near the Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary. It is about 1000 km west of the bat's nearest known habitat, Myanmar.[2]

Quick Facts Conservation status, Scientific classification ...

Phylogenetic analysis supports it being a basal member of Myotinae, which also contains the well-known, cosmopolitan genus Myotis.[3]

Sources

  1. [1]
    Soisook, P.; Csorba, G.; Bumrungsri, S.; Francis, C.M.; Bates, P.; Kingston, T. (2016). "Eudiscopus denticulus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T8168A22028419. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T8168A22028419.en.
  2. [2]
    Karmakar, Rahul (18 April 2021). "Meghalaya records India's first bat with sticky disks". The Hindu.
  3. [3]
    Saikia, Uttam; Chakravarty, Rohit; Hegde, Vishwanath D.; Meetei, Asem Bipin; Kruskop, Sergei; Csorba, Gabor; Ruedi, Manuel (April 2021). "First record of Disk-footed bat Eudiscopus denticulus (Osgood, 1932) (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from India with notes on its ecology and genetics". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 128 (1): 187–198. doi:10.35929/RSZ.0044. ISSN 0035-418X.


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