Evening bats, long-eared bats, myotis bats, pipistrelles, serotines, and relatives

Evening bats, long-eared bats, myotis bats, pipistrelles, serotines, and relatives

Order : Chiroptera
Family : Vespertilionidae
Subfamily : Vespertilioninae

Facts about the subfamily Vespertilioninae, the evening bats, long-eared bats, myotis bats, pipistrelles, serotines, and relatives

Separation of Myotinae from Vespertilioninae is suggested by chromosome data (Volleth and Heller, 1994) and results of Simmons' (1998) and Simmons and Geisler's (1998) phylogenetic analyses, but DNA hybridization data have suggested that Myotis nests within a clade of vespertilionines (Kirsch et al. (Full text)