Murina cyclotis
Dobson, 1872. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, p. 210.


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ORDER—CHIROPTERA
FAMILY—Vespertilionidae

COMMON NAME—Round-eared tube-nosed bat.

DISTRIBUTION—Sri Lanka to Hainan and Borneo. In the Philippines, recorded from Biliran (UMMZ), Camiguin (MSU-IIT), Catanduanes (USNM), Luzon (Camarines Sur [USNM] province), Mindanao (Bukidnon [FMNH] Privince), Sibuyan (FMNH), and Siqujor (SU).

HABITAT—Primary lowland and lightly disturbed lowland and lower montane forest from 250 m to 1500 m (Heaney et al, 1991, in press; Lepiten, 1995; Rickart et al., 1993; Ruedas et al., 1994).

STATUS—Widespread and moderately common in Philippines.

NOTE ADDED IN 2005--Documented in montane forest at 1,050 m elevation in Balbalasang, Kalinga Province (Heaney et al. 2004)


©2002 (photograph by L. Heaney)

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