Taxonomy and Systematics

Congratulations to the team lead by Sebastien Peuchmaille on their recent publication in Nature Communications. The team from seven countries and ten institutions explored acoustic and genetic divergence in populations of the bumblebee bat (Crasionycteris thonglongyai) and the study m

Whilst DNA barcoding is currently popular in bat studies, basic analyses of morphological characters of Malaysian bats, recently done by the UNIMAS team, still appears to be useful in providing important data on geographic variation and, even occurrence of potential cryptic species. T

The ranks of Murina are swelling! Since Nancy Simmon’s review of 2005, 8 additional Southeast Asian species have been described, and now another three species join the ranks.  Gabor Csorba, Nguyen Truong Son, Ith Saveng and Neil Furey examined specimens from Cambodia and Vietnam

With the recent addition of Rhinolophus affinis, Cambodia’s bat list now grows to 50 species. In July’s issue of the Cambodian Journal of Natural History, Phouthone Kingsada and colleagues bring together all the bat species currently recognised in the peer-reviewed literat

It is great to report on further new papers relating to the taxonomy of SE Asian bats.  Congratulations to Noor Haliza Hasan and Mohd Tajuddin Abdullah on their paper on woolly bats (Kerivoula) from Malaysia. This is a particularly ‘awkward’ group and they have done us all

With their unpigmented thumb pads, and outwardly-displaced second upper incisor, bats of the vespertilionid genus Glischropus are fairly distinctive. Two species have long been recognized, the widespread G. tylopus, and G. javanus known only from Java. However, in a recent issue of Zo