Distribution of Two Species of Long-eared Bats of the Genus Myotis on the Northern Great Plains

Authors

J. Knox Jones Jr., Texas Tech University
Jerry R. Choate, Museum of the High Plains

Date of this Version

6-1978

Citation

Prairie Naturalist (June 1978) 10(2): 49-52.

Comments

Copyright 1978, North Dakota Natural Science Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

Two long-eared species of the cosmopolitan bat genus Myotis, the long-eared myotis (Myotis evotis) and the fringe-tailed myotis (Myotis thysanodes), have been known for many years from the Northern Great Plains. Material acquired in the last decade or so, however, reveals a somewhat different distributional pattern for the two species than had been supposed on the basis of specimens obtained earlier, some of which have been misidentified in the published literature.