Disk-footed bat explained

The disk-footed bat (Eudiscopus denticulus) is a species of vesper bat in the Vespertilionidae family found in Laos and Myanmar. The disc-footed bat was recorded in 2021 in the Lailad area of the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, near the Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary. It is about 1000 km west of the bat's nearest known habitat, Myanmar.^[1]

Phylogenetic analysis supports it being a basal member of Myotinae, which also contains the well-known, cosmopolitan genus Myotis.^[2]

External links

• Photos of several bat species, including (Eudiscopus denticulus) and some other animals (Google translation from Thai)

Notes and References

1. News: Meghalaya records India's first bat with sticky disks. The Hindu. 18 April 2021. Karmakar. Rahul.
2. Saikia. Uttam. Chakravarty. Rohit. Hegde. Vishwanath D.. Meetei. Asem Bipin. Kruskop. Sergei. Csorba. Gabor. Ruedi. Manuel. April 2021. First record of Disk-footed bat Eudiscopus denticulus (Osgood, 1932) (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from India with notes on its ecology and genetics. Revue suisse de Zoologie. 128. 1. 187–198. 10.35929/RSZ.0044. 0035-418X. free.