Order Chiroptera Author Karl F. Koopman text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 137 241 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7353060 54c9783b-6624-4034-96d9-d09afe43b319 1-56098-217-9 7353060 Myotis australis (Dobson, 1878) . Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus., p. 317 . TYPE LOCALITY: Australia , New South Wales . DISTRIBUTION: New South Wales , possibly Western Australia ( Australia ). COMMENTS: Subgenus Selysius . Poorly known, the type and only certain specimen possibly being incorrectly labelled, or a vagrant individual of muricola . See also Aust. Bat Res. News, 9. A specimen from NW Australia may belong in this species ( Koopman, 1984c :ll-12). Hill (1983) considered australis a subspecies of ater (here included in M. muricola ).