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Lorelie’s Tube-nosed Bat

Murina lorelieae

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

Other common names: Lorelia’s Tube-nosed Bat

Taxonomy. Murina lorelieae Eger & B. K. Lim, 2011,

“Diding Headwater Forest Nature Preserve (formerly known as Jing Xi County Provincial Nature Reserve), Jing Xi County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. 23°07' 12"N, 105°57'36"E, elevation 978 m above sea level.”

Limited genetic data suggestit is sister to a clade that includes M. feae, M. beelzebub, M. annamitica, M. walstoni, M. swilla, and M. aenea . Two subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution. M.l.lorelicaeEger&B.K.Lim,2011-GuangxiinSCChina.

M. l. ngoclinhensis Tu & Hassanin, 2015 — Ngoc Linh Nature Reserve in SC Vietnam.

Descriptive notes. Head-body 37-45- 5 mm, tail 31-41 mm, ear 14-16 mm, hindfoot 6-8- 5 mm, forearm 30-8-35- 6 mm; weight 4-6- 6 g. Race ngoclinhensis is larger than the nominate. Fur is very long and silky; dorsally coppery reddish brown (hairs dark gray basally, with pale middle band and reddish-brown tip, with long shiny red guard hairs mixed throughout); ventrally grayish white (hairs dark gray for basal two-thirds, whitish to tip, with longer dirty white guard hairs). Face has dark mask ofstiff black hairs surrounding eyes and muzzle. Dorsal pelage extends sparsely onto wings, uropatagium, thumbs, and feet. Face is sparsely haired except long protuberant nostrils, which are naked. Ears are short, broad, and rounded with smoothly convex anterior margins, lacking notch on posterior margin, with broadly rounded tip; tragus is long, narrow, and tapering toward pointed tip. Wing attaches to base of claw on first toe. Skull is small and lightly built with domed braincase; sagittal crest is lacking, lambdoidal crests very weakly developed. C! is a little taller than P*, with smaller basal area; basal area of P* is slightly more than half that of P*; M' and M? have well-developed mesostyles and a curved labial side; talonids of M, and M, are about two-thirds the size of their respective trigonids. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 44 and FN = 50 (Vietnam).

Habitat. Collected in wet montane evergreen forests in Vietnam, and secondary evergreen forest in China. Recorded at elevations of 117-1682 m in Vietnam and 978 m in China.

Food and Feeding. No information.

Breeding. No information.

Activity patterns. No information.

Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.

Status and Conservation. Not assessed on The IUCN Red List, due to its recent recognition as a species. Currently known from only two widely separated localities.

Bibliography. Eger & Lim (2011), Kruskop (2013a), Nguyen Truong Son et al. (2015), Soisook (2013), Tu Vuong Tan, Cornette et al. (2015).