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Title: A New Subspecies of Bat (Myotis velifer) from Southeastern California and Arizona

Author: Terry A. Vaughan

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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Volume 7, No. 8, pp. 507-512

July 23, 1954

A New Subspecies of Bat (Myotis velifer)
from Southeastern California and Arizona

BY

TERRY A. VAUGHAN

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE
1954

UNIVERSITY OR KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard,
Robert W. Wilson

Volume 7, No. 8, pp. 507-512
Published July 23, 1954

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND. JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1954

25-3727

A New Subspecies of Bat (_Myotis velifer_) from Southeastern California
and Arizona

BY

TERRY A. VAUGHAN

The first specimens of _Myotis velifer_ from California were taken in
1909 by C. L. Camp at Needles, San Bernardino County (Grinnell, Univ.
California Publ. Zool., 12:266, March 20, 1914), and subsequently this
bat was recorded from farther south in the lower Colorado River Valley
at the Riverside Mountains, Riverside County (Stager, Jour. Mamm.,
20:226, May 14, 1939). West of the Rocky Mountains the species is known
to occur also in at least the southern two-thirds of Arizona,
southwestern New Mexico, and is recorded from Thistle Valley, Utah, on
the basis of two young specimens in alcohol (Miller and Allen, Bull. U.
S. Nat. Mus., 144:87, May 25, 1928). Through comparisons made possible
by the acquisition, in the last few years, of mammals from many parts of
Mexico by the Museum of Natural History of the University of Kansas, it
became evident that _Myotis velifer_ in California and Arizo