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Annam Tube-nosed Bat

Murina annamitica

French: Murine annamite / German: Annam-Réhrennase / Spanish: Ratonero narizudo annamatica

Other common names: Annamite Tube-nosed Bat

Taxonomy. Murina annamitica Francis & Eger, 2012,

“near Nam Pan in the Annamite Mountains, Bolikhamxai Province, Laos (18°28°N, 105°05’E,alt. ~ 1300 m).”

Murina annamitica appears to be closely related to M. feae and M. beelzebub, but other studies placed it close to M. peninsularis . Morphologically, it is closely related to M. cyclotis and its relatives including M. perunsularis. Monotypic.

Distribution. NW Thailand, Vietham, N & C Laos, and EC Cambodia.

Descriptive notes. Head-body 36- 2-55 mm, tail 32-4-40- 3 mm, ear 119- 15 mm, hindfoot 5-9-8- 1 mm, forearm 27-34- 6 mm; weight 4- 3-8 g. Fur long and silky. Dorsal pelage is orange-brown to coppery brown (hairs with dark brown bases, orangebrown middles, and darker coppery reddish brown tips); venter is grayish buff or whitish gray (hairs with dark gray bases and buffy or whitish gray tips). Dorsal pelage extends sparsely onto wings, uropatagium, thumbs, and feet. Face is sparsely haired except for long protuberant naked nostrils. Ears are short, broad, and rounded, with smoothly convex anterior margins, no notch on posterior margins, and broadly rounded tips; tragus is long (relatively short for Murina) and narrow and tapers toward pointed tip. Wing attaches to base of claw on first toe. Skull has inflated rostrum and domed braincase; sagittal and lambdoidal crests are weak; 12 is lateral to I’, basal area of C' is equal to that of P* but taller; P? is less than one-half the height of P* and two-thirds the basal area; mesostyles of M' and M? are well developed; and talonids of M, and M, are subequalto orslightly larger in size than their respective trigonids.

Habitat. Hill evergreen forests (Thailand), wet evergreen montane forest and pine savanna and evergreen and semideciduous woods (Laos), and premontane secondary forest (Vietnam) at elevations of 500-1300 m.

Food and Feeding. No information.

Breeding. No information.

Activity patterns. Call shape from one Annam Tube-nosed Bat in Thailand was steep FM sweep, with start frequencies of 184-194 kHz, end frequencies of 41-51 kHz, peak frequencies of 121-1-139-8 kHz, and durations of 2:4-3-4 milliseconds (single specimen from.

Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information.

Status and Conservation. Not assessed on The IUCN Red List. The Annam Tube-nosed Bat appears to be widespread in South-east Asia, but it is currently known from relatively few specimens, and virtually nothing is known about its ecology and threats.

Bibliography. Francis & Eger (2012), Kruskop (2013a), Nguyen Truong Son et al. (2015), Soisook (2013), Soisook, Karapan, Satasook & Bates (2013), Soisook, Thaw Win-Naingng et al. (2017).