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Black-winged Myotis

Myotis rufoniger

Classification

The reddish-black myotis or black-winged myotis (Myotis rufoniger), colloquially known as the "red bat" or "golden bat" (not to be confused with Lasiurus species, also known as red bats, or Mimon bennettii, also known as the golden bat) in South Korea, is a species of vesper bat found throughout East Asia. Taxonomy It was initially described as a distinct species by Robert Fisher Tomes in 1858, but later studies reclassified as conspecific with Hodgson's bat (M. formosus).

Distribution

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