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 emarginatus (E. Geoffroy 1806) [Vespertilio] emarginatus E. Geoffroy 1806 , Ann. Mus . Natn. Hist. Nat. Paris, 8: 198 . Type Locality: France , Ardennes, Givet, Charlemont. Vernacular Names: Geoffroy's Myotis . Subspecies: : Subspecies Myotis emarginatus subsp. emarginatus E. Geoffroy 1806 Subspecies Myotis emarginatus subsp. desertorum Dobson 1875 Subspecies Myotis emarginatus subsp. turcomanicus Bobrinskii 1925 Distribution: S Europe, north to Netherlands and S Poland , Crimea, Caucasus and Kopet Dag Mtns, east and south to Israel , Jordan , Syria , Lebanon , Saudi Arabia , Oman , E Iran , Kyrgyzstan , Tajikistan , Uzbekistan , and Afghanistan ; Morocco , Algeria , and Tunisia . Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Vulnerable. Discussion: Reviewed in part by Harrison and Bates (1991) ; also see Gaucher (1995) and Horácek et al. (2000). Apparently closely related to welwitschii ; see Ruedi and Mayer (2001) .