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Hutton’s Tube-nosed Bat

Murina huttonii

French: Murine de Hutton / German: Hutton-Rohrennase / Spanish: Ratonero narizudo de Hutton

Other common names: \ White-bellied Tube-nosed Bat

Taxonomy. Harpyiocephalus huttonii Peters, 1872,

Dehra Dun, Kumaon, Uttar Pradesh, India.

See M. harrisoni, M. fusca, and M. puta . Two subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution. M.h.huttoniiPeters,1872—NEPakistan,NIndia(JammuandKashmir,Uttarakhand,WestBengal,ArunachalPradesh,Assam,andMeghalaya),andNepal;possiblyalsoBhutan.

M. h. rubella Thomas, 1914 — SE China (Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi), N Myanmar, N Thailand, N Laos, Vietnam, and Peninsular Malaysia.

Descriptive notes. Head—body 40-53 mm, tail 31-42- 5 mm, ear 14-17 mm, hindfoot 6-6— 8- 9 mm, forearm 32-36 mm; weight 5- 3-8 g. Fur is long and fluffy; dorsally rusty brown (hairs with slate-gray base then a pale buffy band that blends gradually into a darker orange-brown band); ventrally pale brown (hairs similar to dorsum but paler and whiter near tip). Dorsal pelage extends sparsely onto wings, uropatagium, thumbs, and feet. Face is sparsely haired except long protuberant nostrils, which are naked. Earsare short, broad, and rounded, with smoothly convex anterior margins, no notch on posterior margin, with broadly rounded tip; tragusis long, narrow, and tapering toward pointed tip. Wing attachesto base of claw on first toe. Baculum is very small (1-5 mm); anterior margin has a slight concavity while posterior margin has a very distinct one, and dorsal side is arched upward whereas ventral side is deeply concave acrossits length (somewhat saddleshaped). Skull has flat braincase and non-inflated rostrum;sagittal and lambdoidal crests are weakly developed. I? is lateral or partly anterior to I; C! is much taller than P* but equal in basal area; P* is subequal to P* in height but two-thirds the basal area; mesostyles of M' and M? are well developed; talonids of M, and M,are only slightly smaller than the respective trigonids. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 44 and FN = 50 (Vietnam).

Habitat. Known from hill evergreen forest in Thailand and hill forest in Laos. Also recorded in premontane evergreen forest in Vietnam, and in montane forests, tropical broadleaf forests, and banana plantations in South Asia. Recorded at elevations of 1140-2462 m.

Food and Feeding. No information.

Breeding. No information.

Activity patterns. Found roosting under tree bark, in dry banana leaves, and in the bases of banana plants.

Movements, Home range and Social organization. Found roosting solitarily.

Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. Widespread, with no known major threats at present.

Bibliography. Csorba et al. (2007), Das (2003), Francis (2008a), Francis & Eger (2012), Francis, Bates, Molur & Srinivasulu (2008b), Nguyen Truong Son et al. (2015), Smith & Xie Yan (2008), Soisook (2013), Srinivasulu & Srinivasulu (2012), Zhou Quan et al. (2011).