Order Chiroptera - Family Vespertilionidae Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1 451 529 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 Myotis chinensis Tomes 1857 Myotis chinensis Tomes 1857 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857: 52 . Type Locality: "Southern China ". Vernacular Names: Large Myotis . Synonyms: Myotis luctuosus Allen 1923 . Distribution: Szechwan and Yunnan to Kiangsu ( China ); Hong Kong ; N Thailand ; Burma ; Vietnam . Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc). Discussion: Included in the species myotis by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) and Zhang Yongzu et al. (1997), but see Lekagul and McNeely (1977) , Corbet (1978 c ) , Horácek et al. (2000), and Kawai et al. (2003) . Reviewed by Bates et al. (1999) . Two subspecies are sometimes recognized, but these do not adequately correspond to known variation in the species; see Bates et al. (1999) and Hendrichsen et al. (2001 b ) .