Myotis vivesi: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Vespertilionidae
- Genus
- Myotis
- Species
- Myotis vivesi
- Scientific Name
- Myotis vivesi
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Myotis vivesi
Myotis vivesi, the fish-eating bat or fish-eating myotis, is a species of bat that lives around the Gulf of California, and feeds on fish and crustaceans. It is the largest species of the genus Myotis in the Americas, and has exceptionally large feet, which it uses in hunting. It was described in 1901 by Auguste Ménégaux. It was previously considered the only member of the Myotis subgenus Pizonyx, but Pizonyx is now considered to contain all American Myotis species, along with two Eurasian ones.
...Myotis vivesi in languages:
- Dutch
- Visetende Vleermuis
- English
- fish-eating bat
- English
- Fish-eating Myotis
- Finnish
- kalastajasiippa
- German
- Fischfressendes Mausohr
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Myotis albescens
- Myotis arescens
- Myotis armiensis
- Myotis atacamensis
- Myotis attenboroughi
- Myotis auriculus
- Myotis austroriparius
- Myotis bakeri
- Myotis brandtii
- Myotis californicus
- Myotis carteri
- Myotis caucensis
- Myotis chiloensis
- Myotis ciliolabrum
- Myotis clydejonesi
- Myotis cobanensis
- Myotis diminutus
- Myotis dinellii
- Myotis dominicensis
- Myotis elegans
- Myotis evotis
- Myotis findleyi
- Myotis fortidens
- Myotis grisescens
- Myotis handleyi
- Myotis izecksohni
- Myotis keaysi
- Myotis keenii
- Myotis larensis
- Myotis lavali
- Myotis leibii
- Myotis levis
- Myotis martiniquensis
- Myotis midastactus
- Myotis moratellii
- Myotis nesopolus
- Myotis nigricans
- Myotis nyctor
- Myotis occultus
- Myotis oxyotus
- Myotis pampa
- Myotis pilosatibialis
- Myotis planiceps
- Myotis riparius
- Myotis ruber
- Myotis septentrionalis
- Myotis sibiricus
- Myotis simus
- Myotis sodalis
- Myotis thysanodes
- Myotis velifer
- Myotis vivesi
- Myotis volans
- Myotis yumanensis

































