Species: Myotis evotis
Long-eared Myotis
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This article originally appeared in the State of Washington Bat Conservation Plan. Further information is available from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife recently released a Bat Conservation Plan for the 15 species of bats found in Washington State. All but four of these species occur within the greater Puget Sound watershed1, including:
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Vespertilionidae
Genus
Myotis
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Classification
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Mammals - Bats
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae - Myotis - by Wilson and Reeder (2005).
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
A small bat (long-eared myotis).
Habitat Type Description
Terrestrial
Migration
false - false - false - The winter range is not known. This species is probably migratory (Banfield 1974).
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Food Comments
Insectivorous. Forages over water or among trees. Usually feeds by picking prey from surface of foliage, tree trunks, rocks, or ground; may fly slowly around shrub searching for emerging moths or perhaps nonflying prey. See Manning and Jones (1989).
Reproduction Comments
Litter size is 1. Births have been recorded in mid-July in western Washington. Young and lactating females were recorded in late July in New Mexico. Female and newborn young were recorded in late June in California. Male young-of-year about adult size were observed in early August in South Dakota.
Ecology Comments
Widespread, not uncommon, but little is known about habits. It has been found foraging with M. VOLANS, EPTESICUS FUSCUS, LASIONYCTERIS NOCTIVAGANS, and L. CINEREUS.
Length
10
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1998-08-03
Global Status Last Changed
1998-08-03
Other Status
LC - Least concern
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
H - 2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - Western North America, from central British Columbia, southern Alberta, and southern Saskatchewan south along the Pacific Coast to Baja California, east through Montana and Idaho to the western Dakotas, and from Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado to New Mexico and Arizona. From near sea level along the Pacific Coast to about 2,830 meters in Wyoming (Manning and Jones 1989).
Global Range Code
H
Global Range Description
2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)