Yanbaru whiskered bat

Yanbaru whiskered bat
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Vespertilionidae
Genus: Myotis
Species: M. yanbarensis
Binomial name
Myotis yanbarensis
Maeda & Matsumura, 1998

The Yanbaru whiskered bat (Myotis yanbarensis) is a species of vesper bat in the genus Myotis. It is only known from the islands of Okinawa, Amami Ōshima, and Tokunoshima in the Ryukyu Archipelago south of Japan.

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