Murina ussuriensis

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	CHIROPTERA	VESPERTILIONIDAE

Scientific Name:

Murina ussuriensis

Species Authority:

Ognev, 1913

Common Name/s:

English

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Ussuri Tube-nosed Bat

Synonym/s:

Murina silvatica Yoshiyuki, 1983

Taxonomic Notes:

This species was previously considered a subspecies of M. aurata. Some authors consider the Japanese populations to represent a distinct species, Murina silvatica (e.g., Simmons, 2005), but we follow Abe et al., 2005 in including the Japanese populations within M. ussuriensis.

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Least Concern ver 3.1

Year Published:

2008

Assessor/s:

Tsytsulina, K.

Reviewer/s:

Hutson, A.M., Racey, P.A. (Chiroptera Red List Authority) & Temple, H. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)

Contributor/s:

Justification:
This species is relatively widespread geographically, but is still affected by habitat loss across its range, but it is not thought to be declining fast enough to be listed in a more threatened category.

History:

1996

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Endangered

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Resricted to southern part of Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula, Sakhalin Island, and the Kuriles. Within Japan, it has been recorded from Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tsushima Island, Yakushima Island and Iki Island (Abe et al., 2005). In China it has been reported from the provinces of Nei Mongol, Jilin and Heilongjiang (Smith and Xie, in press), but this needs verification; it is possible that these records should be attributed to another Murina species (K. Tsytsulina pers. comm. 2008).
Countries:	Native: Japan; Korea, Republic of; Russian Federation
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Population [top]

Population:	This species is widely distributed but is locally rare. Surveys have only found this species at low density.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It roosts mainly in tree hollows, but also roosts in leaves, hollow bark, and in caves.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	This species is threatened by the loss of forest throughout its range, although it is unlikely to be a major threat at present.

Major Threat(s):

This species is threatened by the loss of forest throughout its range, although it is unlikely to be a major threat at present.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	The species is known from protected areas.

Conservation Actions:

The species is known from protected areas.

Citation:	Tsytsulina, K. 2008. Murina ussuriensis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 May 2013.
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