Mammals of Korea: a review of their taxonomy, distribution and conservation status
Author
Jo, Yeong-Seok
Author
Baccus, John T.
Author
Koprowski, John L.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-11-19
4522
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4522.1.1
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Myotis sibiricus
(
Kastshenko, 1905
)
—Siberian Myotis
Ƒespertilio brandtii
Eversmann, 1845 p.505
;
Type
locality-
Ural
,
Russia
.
Ƒ. mystacinus sibiricus
Kastshenko, 1905 p.25
;
Type
locality-
Tomsk
,
Russia
.
Myotis mystacinus
:
Thomas, 1907a p.404
(
Sakhalin
,
Russia
);
Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.138
;
Won, 1968 p.93
;
Corbet, 1978 p.47
;
Son, 2001 p.98
;
Yoon, 2004 p.53
;
Yoon, 2010 p.23
.
M. mystacinus gracilis
Ognev, 1927 p.145
;
Type
locality- Vladivostok,
Russia
;
Kuroda, 1938 p.95
;
Ellerman & Morrison-Scott, 1951 p.140
;
Won, 1967 p.311
;
Won, 1968 p.94
;
Yoon, 1992 p.35
;
Yoon, 2010 p.23
.
M. gracilis
:
Won, 1958 p.454
.
M. brandtii
:
Han, 1994 p.45
;
Won & Smith, 1999 p.13
;
Jo
et al.
, 2012 p.251
.
M. sibiricus
:
Kruskop
et al
., 2012 p.1
(Asia)
.
M. (Aeorestes) sibirica
:
Kruskop, 2012 p.99
(
Korea
)
.
Range:
The distribution of this common species covers the Korean Peninsula and
Jeju
Island (
Yoon 2010;
Fig. 29
).
FIGURE 29.
Range map of
Myotis sibiricus
in Korea.
Remarks:
Korean populations were regarded as
M. mystacinus gracilis
Ognev, 1927
(
Won 1967
)
. Although
Yoshiyuki (1989)
classified the subspecies as a distinct species,
M. gracilis
,
Koopman (1993)
treated
M. gracilis
as a synonym of
M. brandtii
. Then,
Yoon (2010)
assigned Korean populations of this species to
M. mystacinus gracilis
based on size and morphology of the teeth. However, the range of
M. mystacinus
is restricted to western Eurasia (
Hutson
et al.
2008
) and DNA analysis supported a distribution of
M. brandtii
in eastern Asia (
Kawai
et al.
2003
). Therefore, Korean subspecies of Siberian myotis subsumed to
M. brandtii
with two known subspecies,
M
.
brandtii brandtii
in Europe, Caucasus and western Siberia and
M
.
b
.
gracilis
in central and eastern Siberia,
Mongolia
,
Korea
, Manchuria, and
Japan
(
Benda & Tsytsulina 2000
;
Tsytsulina 2001
). Based on the dorsal profile of skull and morphology of the protoconules of premolar,
Yoshiyuki (1989)
elevated
gracilis
to a distinct species, and
Horáček
et al
. (2000)
provisionally kept
gracilis
as a species. Also,
Kawai
et al.
(2006)
supported the species
M. gracilis
because of great genetic distances (
0.103
–0.107
) between
M. brandtii
from Europe and
M. b.
gracilis
from
Hokkaido
,
Japan
. DNA analysis indicated that
M. mystacinus
and
M. ikonnikovi
as Old World
Myotis
, and both
M. brandtii
and
M. b.
gracilis
as New World
Myotis
grouping with American
Myotis
spp. (
Stadelmann
et al.
2007
).
Kruskop
et al.
(2012)
also supported a distinct species from eastern Asia based on molecular markers, but they gave priority to the first name
M. sibiricus
(
Kastshenko, 1905
)
from Tomsk in central Siberia over
M. gracilis
from Vladivostok in Russian Far East, which is followed here.