Myotis pilosus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Vespertilionidae
- Genus
- Myotis
- Species
- Myotis pilosus
- Scientific Name
- Myotis pilosus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Rickett's big-footed bat
Rickett's big-footed bat (Myotis pilosus) is a species of vesper bat. It can be found in southern and eastern China, Vietnam, and Laos. This species has often been called Myotis ricketti, but the older M. pilosus has priority. The erroneous reporting of the type locality as being in Uruguay by Wilhelm Peters led to the dual naming.
Rickett's big-footed bat is a widely distributed habitat specialist that is strictly dependent on water since its diet consists in large proportion of fish. Near Beijing, its diet was 60% pale chub (Zacco platypus), and 13% water beetles. It is threatened by water pollution.
Rickett's big-footed bat was featured in the BBC video series Wild China.
...Myotis pilosus in languages:
- Chinese
- 大足鼠耳蝠
- Czech
- netopýr Rickettův
- English
- Rickett's Big-footed Myotis
- English
- Rickett's Big-footed Bat
- Finnish
- eteläkiinansiippa
- German
- Rickett-Wasserfledermaus
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Myotis adversus
- Myotis alcathoe
- Myotis altarium
- Myotis alticraniatus
- Myotis ancricola
- Myotis annatessae
- Myotis annectans
- Myotis ater
- Myotis bechsteinii
- Myotis bombinus
- Myotis borneoensis
- Myotis browni
- Myotis bucharensis
- Myotis capaccinii
- Myotis chinensis
- Myotis crypticus
- Myotis dasycneme
- Myotis daubentonii
- Myotis davidii
- Myotis escalerai
- Myotis federatus
- Myotis fimbriatus
- Myotis frater
- Myotis gomantongensis
- Myotis hasseltii
- Myotis hayesi
- Myotis horsfieldii
- Myotis hoveli
- Myotis hyrcanicus
- Myotis ikonnikovi
- Myotis indochinensis
- Myotis insularum
- Myotis laniger
- Myotis longicaudatus
- Myotis longipes
- Myotis macrodactylus
- Myotis macropus
- Myotis macrotarsus
- Myotis moluccarum
- Myotis montivagus
- Myotis muricola
- Myotis mystacinus
- Myotis nattereri
- Myotis nipalensis
- Myotis pequinius
- Myotis petax
- Myotis peytoni
- Myotis phanluongi
- Myotis pilosus
- Myotis pruinosus
- Myotis ridleyi
- Myotis rosseti
- Myotis schaubi
- Myotis secundus
- Myotis sicarius
- Myotis siligorensis
- Myotis soror
- Myotis sowerbyi
- Myotis stalkeri
- Myotis tschuliensis
- Myotis yanbarensis
- Myotis zenatius





