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Title: A New Subspecies of the Black Myotis (Bat) from Eastern Mexico

Author: E. Raymond Hall
Ticul Alvarez

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 14, No. 4, pp. 69-72, 1 fig.
December 29, 1961

A New Subspecies of the Black Myotis (Bat)
From Eastern Mexico

BY

E. RAYMOND HALL AND TICUL ALVAREZ

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1961

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
Theodore H. Eaton, Jr.

Volume 14, No. 4, pp. 69-72, 1 fig.
Published December 29, 1961

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
JEAN M. NEIBARGER, STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1961
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28-8477

A New Subspecies of the Black Myotis (Bat) From Eastern Mexico

BY

E. RAYMOND HALL AND TICUL ALVAREZ

In 1928 when Miller and Allen (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 144) published
their revisionary account of American bats of the genus _Myotis_, the
black myotis, _Myotis nigricans_, was known no farther north than
Chiapas and Campeche. Collections of mammals made in recent years for
the Museum of Natural History of The University of Kansas include
specimens of _M. nigricans_ from eastern Mexico as far north as
Tamaulipas. Critical study of this newly acquired material reveals that
it pertains to an hitherto unnamed subspecies t