A finding of Eptesicus gobiensis in an ancient salt mine in Iran and notes on the status of this bat in the Middle East (Mammalia: Chiroptera)

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Result on the web

<a href="https://publikace.nm.cz/periodicke-publikace/jotnmpnhs/190-1/a-finding-of-eptesicus-gobiensis-in-an-ancient-salt-mine-in-iran-and-notes-on-the-status-of-this-bat-in-the-middle-east-mammalia-chiroptera" target="_blank" >https://publikace.nm.cz/periodicke-publikace/jotnmpnhs/190-1/a-finding-of-eptesicus-gobiensis-in-an-ancient-salt-mine-in-iran-and-notes-on-the-status-of-this-bat-in-the-middle-east-mammalia-chiroptera</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/jnmpnhs.2021.004" target="_blank" >10.37520/jnmpnhs.2021.004</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A finding of Eptesicus gobiensis in an ancient salt mine in Iran and notes on the status of this bat in the Middle East (Mammalia: Chiroptera)

Original language description

Two mummified bats were found in an ancient salt mine near Chehrabad, NW Iran. One complete and one partial skeletons, both associated with parts of the pelage, were identified as Eptesicus gobiensis, a bat species rare in the Middle East. The comparison of skull and statistical evaluation of craniodental data showed this bat to belong to the identical taxon as the mummified bats previously collected in Qutur Su caves, NW Iran; this part of Iran is thus an area of broader distribution of this bat, the second record reported here confirms its preference for dry upper plateaus. This Iranian population exhibits much similarity with E. gobiensis bobrinskoi living in lowland deserts of Kazakhstan, but it simultaneously shows morphological and ecological differences from the Kazakhstani populations. Therefore, the population of Iran is here tentatively identified as E. g. cf. bobrinskoi. The species rank of E. gobiensis was found to be composed of three morphotypes living in three separate ranges, E. g. gobiensis in mountain plateaus of Central Asia, E. g. bobrinskoi in lowlands of Kazakhstan, and E. g. cf. bobrinskoi in NW Iran. However, the phylogenetic and taxonomic statuses of the Iranian morphotype still remain to be elicudated.

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10613 - Zoology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series

ISSN

1802-6842

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Volume of the periodical

190

Issue of the periodical within the volume

září

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

61-72

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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