Scott's mouse-eared bat

Scott's mouse-eared bat
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Vespertilionidae
Genus:	Myotis
Species:	M. scotti
Binomial name
Myotis scotti Thomas, 1927

Scott's mouse-eared bat (Myotis scotti) is a species of vesper bat. It is found only in Ethiopia, in subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Taxonomy and etymology

Scott's mouse-eared bat was described as a new species in 1927 by British zoologist Oldfield Thomas. The eponym for the species name "scotti" was H. H. Scott. Scott had obtained the holotype near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ^[2]

References

1. Benda, P.; Lavrenchenko, L. (2017). "Myotis scotti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017 e.T14199A22062198. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T14199A22062198.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
2. Thomas, O. (1927). "LX.—A new bat of the genus Myotis from Abyssinia". Journal of Natural History. 19 (113): 554–555. doi:10.1080/00222932708655532.