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Misspelled bocagei by some authors, see Bogdanowicz and Kock (1998). No subspecies are presently recognized; see Patterson et al. (2019).; [IUCN] Originally Vespertilio bocagii . Listed as bocagei by Koopman (1993), but this spelling is incorrect. Two subspecies are recognised in Africa; where the nominate subspecies occurs in southern Africa, while M . b . cupreolus Thomas 1904 occurs in West Africa (Monadjem et al. 2010).; [batnames2023] Includes dogalensis ; see Corbet (1978 c ). Reviewed in part by Harrison and Bates (1991). Misspelled bocagei by some authors, see Bogdanowicz and Kock (1998). No subspecies are presently recognized; see Patterson et al. (2019).; [batnames2025_1.7] Includes dogalensis; see Corbet (1978c). Reviewed in part by Harrison and Bates (1991). Misspelled bocagei by some authors, see Bogdanowicz and Kock (1998). No subspecies are presently recognized; see Patterson et al. (2019).						cupreolus, dogalensis, hildegardeae.	dogalensis, bocagei, cupreolus	bocagii, cupreolus, dogalensis	hildegardeae	bocagii, cupreolus	dogalensis, hildegardeae	bocagii 	bocagii - hildegardeae, cupreolus, dogalensis	bocagii, cupreolus, hildegardeae	Originally Vespertilio bocagii . Listed as bocagei by Koopman (1993), but this spelling is incorrect. Two subspecies are recognised in Africa; where the nominate subspecies occurs in southern Africa, while M . b . cupreolus Thomas 1904 occurs in West Africa (Monadjem et al. 2010).	bocagii 	bocagii - cupreolus, dogalensis, hildegardeae	bocagii, cupreolus, hildegardeae 	bocagii, dogalensis, bocagei, cupreolus, hildegardeae	bocagii 	bocagii - cupreolus, dogalensis, hildegardeae	bocagii (W. C. H. Peters, 1870)|dogalensis (Monticelli, 1887)|bocagei (du Bocage, 1889) [incorrect subsequent spelling]|cupreolus O. Thomas, 1904|hildegardeae O. Thomas, 1904		Corbet, G.B. and Hill, J.E. 1980. A World List of Mammalian Species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp.	Rufous mouse-eared bat	Liberia – Kenya – Angola, Mozambique,	Honacki, J.H., Kinman, K.E. and Koeppl, J.W. 1982. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Allen Press, Lawrence, 694 pp.	Myotis bocagei	Angola, Duque de Braganca.	Peters	1870	J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa, ser. 1, 3:125.	Distribution: Ranging from Senegal and Yemen to the Transvaal.		Corbet, G.B. and Hill, J.E. 1991. A World List of Mammalian Species. Third edition. Oxford University Press, London, 243 pp. ISBN 0-19-854017-5	Rufous mouse-eared bat	Liberia – Kenya – Angola, Transvaal; S Yemen	Koopman, K.F. 1993. Order Chiroptera. Pp. 137–242 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1206 pp.	Peters	1870	J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa, ser. 1, 3:125.	Subgenus Leuconoe. Includes dogalensis) see Corbet (1978c:49).	Senegal to S Yemen, south to Angola, Zambia, and Transvaal (South Africa).	Angola, Duque de Braganca.		PETERS	1870	Size medium (forearm length, 36-40 mm; condylobasal length, 13-15 mm). Foot relatively small.	Distribution: Ranging from Senegal and Yemen to the Transvaal.	Three subspecies are currently recognized:	M. b. dogalensis (Yemen), M. b. bocagei (Ethiopia to Angola and Transvaal), M. b. cupreolus (Liberia to Zaire).	106	species	M. bocagei	PETERS	1870	Leuconoe	subgenus	Myotis bocagei				Size medium (forearm length, 36-40 mm; condylobasal length, 13-15 mm). Foot relatively small.	Three subspecies are currently recognized:		53. M. bocagei (PETERS 1870) [adversus group].	53	_M. b. bocagii_ (Peters, 1870) (synonyms: _hildegardeae_ Thomas, 1904); _M. b. cupreolus_ Thomas, 1904; _M. b. dogalensis_ (Monticelli, 1887)			Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (editors). 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. (Available from Johns Hopkins University Press, 1-800-537-5487 or (410) 516-6900, or at http://www.press.jhu.edu).	CHIROPTERA	Vespertilionidae	Myotinae		Myotis bocagii	Myotis		bocagii	Peters	y	1870		J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa, ser. 1	3		125		Rufous Myotis	Angola, Duque de Braganca.	Senegal and Liberia to S Yemen, south to Angola, Zambia, Malawi, and NE South Africa.	IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).	hildegardeae Thomas, 1904; cupreolus Thomas, 1904; dogalensis Monticelli, 1887.	Includes dogalensis; see Corbet (1978c). Reviewed in part by Harrison and Bates (1991). Misspelled bocagei by some authors, see Bogdanowicz and Kock (1998).	4C3D87E8FF446AFBFF86956E142ABF1C	Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions	978-84-16728-19-0	hbmw_9_Vespertilionidae_716.pdf.imf	hash://md5/b004ff90fffb6a44fffc96591e00bb32	953	zip:hash://sha256/ec5fd314a06aba1a7b0b72f23e54ac625ae272bd98f82f1d01f4c09627d9e8e0!/treatments-xml-main/data/4C/3D/87/4C3D87E8FF446AFBFF86956E142ABF1C.xml	Myotis bocagii	Vespertilionidae	Myotis	bocagii		1870	Murin de Du Bocage @fr | Bocage-Mausohr @de | Ratonero de Bocage @es | Bocage's Banana Bat @en | Bocage's Hairy Bat @en | Bocage's Mouse-eared Bat @en | Rufous Hairy Bat @en | Rufous Mouse-eared Bat @en | Rufous Mouse-eared Myotis @en | Rufous Myotis @en	Vespertilio bocagii Peters, 1870 , Duque de Braganca, Angola . Subgenus Chrysopteron. See M. tricolor and M. scotti . The forms dogalensis and hildegardeae are treated as synonyms of bocagii . Two subspecies recognized.	M.b.bocagiiPeters,1870—SYemenandmostofsub-SaharanAfricafromEthiopiatoAngolaandStoNESouthAfrica. M. b. cupreolus Thomas, 1904 —- W & C Africa from Senegal to DR Congo .	Head-body ¢. 50-53 mm , tail 30-50 mm , ear 12-16 mm , hindfoot 11-12 mm , forearm 33-42 mm ; weight 5-10 g . Greatest lengths of skulls are 13-6 15- 9 mm . Females average, slightly larger than males. Pelage is soft, dense and silky; dorsally pale brownish gray (hairs bicolored, with basal half blackish-brown, and distal half pale brownish-gray; mid-dorsal hairs 6-7 mm ); ventrally white to yellowish, sharply delineated from dorsal pelage, especially between ear and shoulder (hairs bicolored, blackish-brown with white to yellowish tip). Juveniles are dorsally darker and browner than adults. Wings uniformly grayish brown without markings; attached to distal end of tibia, clearly above heel; interfemoral membrane grayish brown, thickly covered by brown downy hairs, particularly near body. Ears are grayish brown, short for an African Myotis , outer margin with slight notch; tragus Sshaped with bluntly pointed tip, measuring about half ear length. Muzzle naked from prominent nostrils to eyes, rufous-brown to dark-gray. Tibia hairy, particularly on outer edge; hindfeet relatively large, measuring 70-83% of tibia length. Skull small; braincase comparatively low, profile of forehead moderately to strongly concave; no sagittal crest. P* comparatively large, measuring about half to three-quarters the height of P?, and much more than half the crown area of P?*, usually displaced lingually, but P? and P* well separated; P? also displaced lingually. I, and I, with four cusps. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 44 and FNa = 50 ( South Africa ), X submetacentric, Y acrocentric.	Common where forest, banana plants and open water are present. Recorded from riverine habitats in lowland rainforest and woodland savanna in West Africa, coastal forests in East Africa, and miombo woodland and savanna in the south.	Lepidoptera , Coleoptera , Hemiptera , Diptera , and Trichoptera were eaten in summer and winter at Umbilo River, KwaZulu-Natal ( South Africa ). The species forages mainly by trawling and slow-hawking over water, capturing insects from water surface (orjust below) or, less often, above it, perhaps using hindfeet. Wing loading very low, aspectratio low; flight fast or slow, with great maneuverability; able to take off from the ground. In Malawi , a marked bat foraged over a large farm dam for more than 1-5 hours with only one four-minute break after 55 minutes’ foraging.	Litter size usually one; one record of two. In Makokou, Gabon , a marked female that gave birth in January was pregnantin the following June, and three other marked females gave birth three times within two years. Based on this evidence, the reproductive chronology is polyestry with births in December—February and June. These periods comprise the two drier seasons, when insects are concentrated in the vicinity of rivers and marshes, providing optimal foraging. In north-eastern DR Congo , a pregnant female was recorded in early January and a birth in June. In Equatorial Guinea , a pregnant female in late pregnancy was seen in late January and a young bat in June. In Malawi , one of three adult females was pregnant in September; one of one was pregnant in October; two of five were pregnant, one was lactating, one was postlactating and one was inactive in January; one of one was post-lactating in February; two of eight were post-lactating and six were reproductively inactive in March; six ofsix were parous but reproductively inactive in May. Based on these data, polyestry seems unlikely unless two births occur within the November—March wet season. A male with scrotal testes was collected in East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania ,in July.	Day roosts include furled leaves of bananas and other musaceous plants, bunches of bananas and under dead leaves of bananas and plantains. The species has also been found clinging to broad leaves in dank, dark vegetation of a thickly overgrown swamp; also roosts among leaves of Hyphaene ( Arecaceae ) palms and in hollow trees. Average peak frequency of calls is 43-2 kHz, with duration of 2 milliseconds (Durban, South Africa ); minimum frequency 30-1 kHz, frequency of knee 41-2 kHz, characteristic frequency 36-6 kHz, and duration 2-8 milliseconds for one specimen in Swaziland .	In Makokou, north-eastern Gabon , bats roosted in furled banana leaves in plantations along Ivindo River, over which they foraged at night. Although banana leaves open after a few days, clumps of bananas produce new leaves often enough to allow bats to move into a new leaf, showing roostfidelity to particular clumps. Bats lived in harems comprising one adult male and 2-7 adult females and their young, the entire group roosting together in one furled leaf. Adult males that are not in harems roost singly, sometimes near harems. Each harem occupies a distinct clump of bananas, the distance between harems being 600-1000 m . Females remained very stable over the study period, whereas males were replaced more often.Juveniles left the parental harem at ¢.4-5 months old. Two of ninejuvenile males that were marked in their parental harems, returned when one year old and became “harem-masters.” In formation of harems, adult females outnumbered adult males. As sex ratio at birth was balanced, mortality is probably higher in males than females. Roosts are not in short supply; prime feeding territories over stretches of the river near roosting sites may be limited and worth defending, influencing the harem structure.	Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List.	Brosset (1976) | Csorba, Chou Cheng-Han etal. (2014) | Happold, M. (2013bk) | Monadjem, Shapiro et al. (2017) | Naidoo et al. (2011) | Schoeman & Waddington (2011) | Simmons (2005) | Stanley & Goodman (2011)	https://zenodo.org/record/6398845/files/figure.png	431. Bocage’ Myotis Myotis bocagii French: Murin de Du Bocage / German: Bocage-Mausohr / Spanish: Ratonero de Bocage Other common names: Bocage's Banana Bat , Bocage's Hairy Bat , Bocage's Mouse-eared Bat , Rufous Hairy Bat , Rufous Mouse-eared Bat , Rufous Mouse-eared Myotis , Rufous Myotis Taxonomy. Vespertilio bocagii Peters, 1870 , Duque de Braganca, Angola . Subgenus Chrysopteron. See M. tricolor and M. scotti . The forms dogalensis and hildegardeae are treated as synonyms of bocagii . Two subspecies recognized. Subspecies and Distribution. M.b.bocagiiPeters,1870—SYemenandmostofsub-SaharanAfricafromEthiopiatoAngolaandStoNESouthAfrica. M. b. cupreolus Thomas, 1904 —- W & C Africa from Senegal to DR Congo . Descriptive notes. Head-body ¢. 50-53 mm , tail 30-50 mm , ear 12-16 mm , hindfoot 11-12 mm , forearm 33-42 mm ; weight 5-10 g . Greatest lengths of skulls are 13-6 15- 9 mm . Females average, slightly larger than males. Pelage is soft, dense and silky; dorsally pale brownish gray (hairs bicolored, with basal half blackish-brown, and distal half pale brownish-gray; mid-dorsal hairs 6-7 mm ); ventrally white to yellowish, sharply delineated from dorsal pelage, especially between ear and shoulder (hairs bicolored, blackish-brown with white to yellowish tip). Juveniles are dorsally darker and browner than adults. Wings uniformly grayish brown without markings; attached to distal end of tibia, clearly above heel; interfemoral membrane grayish brown, thickly covered by brown downy hairs, particularly near body. Ears are grayish brown, short for an African Myotis , outer margin with slight notch; tragus Sshaped with bluntly pointed tip, measuring about half ear length. Muzzle naked from prominent nostrils to eyes, rufous-brown to dark-gray. Tibia hairy, particularly on outer edge; hindfeet relatively large, measuring 70-83% of tibia length. Skull small; braincase comparatively low, profile of forehead moderately to strongly concave; no sagittal crest. P* comparatively large, measuring about half to three-quarters the height of P?, and much more than half the crown area of P?*, usually displaced lingually, but P? and P* well separated; P? also displaced lingually. I, and I, with four cusps. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 44 and FNa = 50 ( South Africa ), X submetacentric, Y acrocentric. Habitat. Common where forest, banana plants and open water are present. Recorded from riverine habitats in lowland rainforest and woodland savanna in West Africa, coastal forests in East Africa, and miombo woodland and savanna in the south. Food and Feeding. Lepidoptera , Coleoptera , Hemiptera , Diptera , and Trichoptera were eaten in summer and winter at Umbilo River, KwaZulu-Natal ( South Africa ). The species forages mainly by trawling and slow-hawking over water, capturing insects from water surface (orjust below) or, less often, above it, perhaps using hindfeet. Wing loading very low, aspectratio low; flight fast or slow, with great maneuverability; able to take off from the ground. In Malawi , a marked bat foraged over a large farm dam for more than 1-5 hours with only one four-minute break after 55 minutes’ foraging. Breeding. Litter size usually one; one record of two. In Makokou, Gabon , a marked female that gave birth in January was pregnantin the following June, and three other marked females gave birth three times within two years. Based on this evidence, the reproductive chronology is polyestry with births in December—February and June. These periods comprise the two drier seasons, when insects are concentrated in the vicinity of rivers and marshes, providing optimal foraging. In north-eastern DR Congo , a pregnant female was recorded in early January and a birth in June. In Equatorial Guinea , a pregnant female in late pregnancy was seen in late January and a young bat in June. In Malawi , one of three adult females was pregnant in September; one of one was pregnant in October; two of five were pregnant, one was lactating, one was postlactating and one was inactive in January; one of one was post-lactating in February; two of eight were post-lactating and six were reproductively inactive in March; six ofsix were parous but reproductively inactive in May. Based on these data, polyestry seems unlikely unless two births occur within the November—March wet season. A male with scrotal testes was collected in East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania ,in July. Activity patterns. Day roosts include furled leaves of bananas and other musaceous plants, bunches of bananas and under dead leaves of bananas and plantains. The species has also been found clinging to broad leaves in dank, dark vegetation of a thickly overgrown swamp; also roosts among leaves of Hyphaene ( Arecaceae ) palms and in hollow trees. Average peak frequency of calls is 43-2 kHz, with duration of 2 milliseconds (Durban, South Africa ); minimum frequency 30-1 kHz, frequency of knee 41-2 kHz, characteristic frequency 36-6 kHz, and duration 2-8 milliseconds for one specimen in Swaziland . Movements, Home range and Social organization. In Makokou, north-eastern Gabon , bats roosted in furled banana leaves in plantations along Ivindo River, over which they foraged at night. Although banana leaves open after a few days, clumps of bananas produce new leaves often enough to allow bats to move into a new leaf, showing roostfidelity to particular clumps. Bats lived in harems comprising one adult male and 2-7 adult females and their young, the entire group roosting together in one furled leaf. Adult males that are not in harems roost singly, sometimes near harems. Each harem occupies a distinct clump of bananas, the distance between harems being 600-1000 m . Females remained very stable over the study period, whereas males were replaced more often.Juveniles left the parental harem at ¢.4-5 months old. Two of ninejuvenile males that were marked in their parental harems, returned when one year old and became “harem-masters.” In formation of harems, adult females outnumbered adult males. As sex ratio at birth was balanced, mortality is probably higher in males than females. Roosts are not in short supply; prime feeding territories over stretches of the river near roosting sites may be limited and worth defending, influencing the harem structure. Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. Bibliography. Brosset (1976), Csorba, Chou Cheng-Han etal. (2014), Happold, M. (2013bk), Monadjem, Shapiro et al. (2017), Naidoo et al. (2011), Schoeman & Waddington (2011), Simmons (2005), Stanley & Goodman (2011).	Simmons, N.B. and A.L. Cirranello. 2022B. Bat Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic database. Accessed on 10/11/2022.	Vespertilionidae	Myotis bocagii	Myotis	Chrysopteron	bocagii	Peters	1870	1	J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa, ser. 1	0.2118	Rufous Myotis	 hildegardeae Thomas, 1904; cupreolus Thomas, 1904; dogalensis Monticelli, 1887.	Angola, Duque de Braganca.	Senegal and Liberia to S Yemen, south to Angola, Zambia, Malawi, and NE South Africa.	Not listed.	Least Concern	Includes dogalensis ; see Corbet (1978 c ). Reviewed in part by Harrison and Bates (1991). Misspelled bocagei by some authors, see Bogdanowicz and Kock (1998). No subspecies are presently recognized; see Patterson et al. (2019).	Mammal Diversity Database. (2023). Mammal Diversity Database (Version 1.11) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7830771 released 15 April 2023	Myotis bocagii	23	Bocage's Myotis	Bocage's Banana Bat|Bocage's Hairy Bat|Bocage's Mouse-eared Bat|Rufous Hairy Bat|Rufous Mouse-eared Bat|Rufous Mouse-eared Myotis|Rufous Myotis	Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	CHIROPTERA	VESPERTILIONIFORMES	NA	NA	VESPERTILIONOIDEA	VESPERTILIONIDAE	MYOTINAE	NA	Myotis	Chrysopteron	bocagii	W. Peters	1870	1	Vespertilio_Bocagii	Peters, W. C .H (1870). Lista de mamiferos das possessÅ‘es portuguezas da Africa occidental e diagnoses de algumas espécies novas. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, X, Lisboa, ser. 1, 3, 125.	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54807#page/137/mode/1up	ZMB 3973 [lectotype]		Duque de Bragança, Angola.			bocagii (W. Peters, 1870)|cupreolus O. Thomas, 1904|hildegardeae O. Thomas, 1904	NA	NA	Yemen|Senegal|Guinea|Sierra Leone|Liberia|Côte d'Ivoire|Ghana|Togo|Benin|Burkina Faso|Nigeria|Cameroon|Equatorial Guinea|Gabon|Republic of the Congo|Democratic Republic of the Congo|Central African Republic|South Sudan|Ethiopia|Uganda|Kenya|Tanzania|Rwanda|Burundi|Angola|Zambia|Malawi|Mozambique|Zimbabwe|South Africa	Africa|Asia	Afrotropic	LC	0	0	0	Myotis_bocagii	0	sciname match	Myotis_bocagii	0	IUCN. 2022. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-1. https://www.iucnredlist.org. Accessed on [28 September, 2022].	14148	Myotis bocagii	ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	CHIROPTERA	VESPERTILIONIDAE	Myotis	bocagii	(Peters, 1870)	Originally Vespertilio bocagii . Listed as bocagei by Koopman (1993), but this spelling is incorrect. Two subspecies are recognised in Africa; where the nominate subspecies occurs in southern Africa, while M . b . cupreolus Thomas 1904 occurs in West Africa (Monadjem et al. 2010).	20000000	Myotis bocagii	Least Concern		2017	2016-08-31 00:00:00 UTC	3.1	English	Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category	This species has been recorded from tropical moist forest (Rosevear 1965) and wooded savanna. Populations are often found close to rivers and streams, bordered by forest (Happold, 1987). The species roost singly or in groups of up to eight individuals within hollow trees, and among the leaves of bananas or other plants with broad leaves (Rosevear 1965, Brosset 1966; Happold 1987). Allen et al. (1917) noted that the species tended to avoid villages.	There appear to be no major threats to this species as a whole.	Although this species is difficult to catch it is possibly not very rare.	Unknown	This species is widespread throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa. It from Sierra Leone and Senegal in West Africa, eastwards through Cameroon and Central Africa, to Ethiopia and East Africa, being recorded as far south as northeastern South Africa. Outside of Africa it has been recorded from southern Yemen.		Terrestrial	It has been recorded from Kruger National Park, South Africa (Sinner and Chimimba 2005), Dzanga-Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve in the Central African Republic (Lunde et al . 2001), and from the Manga Forest Reserve in Tanzania (Doggert et al. 1999), and in view of the species wide range it is presumed to be present in many more protected areas. There are no direct conservation measures currently needed for this species as a whole.	Afrotropical		FALSE	FALSE	Global	Simmons, N. B., & Cirranello, A. L. (2023). Batnames.org Species List Version 1.4 (1.4). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8136157 	Vespertilionidae	Myotis	Chrysopteron	bocagii	Peters	1870	1	J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa, ser. 1	0.211806	Rufous Myotis	 hildegardeae Thomas, 1904; cupreolus Thomas, 1904; dogalensis Monticelli, 1887.	Angola, Duque de Braganca.	Senegal and Liberia to S Yemen, south to Angola, Zambia, Malawi, and NE South Africa.	Not listed.	Least Concern	Includes dogalensis ; see Corbet (1978 c ). Reviewed in part by Harrison and Bates (1991). Misspelled bocagei by some authors, see Bogdanowicz and Kock (1998). No subspecies are presently recognized; see Patterson et al. (2019).	Myotis bocagii	1005377	23	Bocage's Myotis	Bocage's Banana Bat|Bocage's Hairy Bat|Bocage's Mouse-eared Bat|Rufous Hairy Bat|Rufous Mouse-eared Bat|Rufous Mouse-eared Myotis|Rufous Myotis	Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	CHIROPTERA	VESPERTILIONIFORMES	NA	NA	VESPERTILIONOIDEA	Vespertilionidae	MYOTINAE	NA	Myotis	Chrysopteron	bocagii	W. Peters	1870	1	Vespertilio_Bocagii	Peters, W. C .H (1870). Lista de mamiferos das possessÅ‘es portuguezas da Africa occidental e diagnoses de algumas espécies novas. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, X, Lisboa, ser. 1, 3, 125.	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54807#page/137/mode/1up	ZMB 3973 [lectotype]		Duque de Bragança, Angola.			bocagii (W. Peters, 1870)|cupreolus O. Thomas, 1904|hildegardeae O. Thomas, 1904	NA	NA				Yemen|Senegal|Guinea|Sierra Leone|Liberia|Côte d'Ivoire|Ghana|Togo|Benin|Burkina Faso|Nigeria|Cameroon|Equatorial Guinea|Gabon|Republic of the Congo|Democratic Republic of the Congo|Central African Republic|South Sudan|Ethiopia|Uganda|Kenya|Tanzania|Rwanda|Burundi|Angola|Zambia|Malawi|Mozambique|Zimbabwe|South Africa	Africa|Asia	Afrotropic	LC	0	0	0	Myotis_bocagii	0	sciname match	Myotis_bocagii	0	Burgin, C. J., Zijlstra, J. S., Becker, M. A., Handika, H., Alston, J. M., Widness, J., Liphardt, S., Huckaby, D. G., and Upham, N. S. (2025). How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge. Journal of Mammalogy in revision: TBD. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.27.640393	Myotis_bocagii	1005377	23	Bocage's Myotis	Bocage's Banana Bat|Bocage's Hairy Bat|Bocage's Mouse-eared Bat|Rufous Hairy Bat|Rufous Mouse-eared Bat|Rufous Mouse-eared Myotis|Rufous Myotis	Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	Chiroptera	Yangochiroptera	NA	NA	Vespertilionoidea	Vespertilionidae	Myotinae	NA	Myotis	Chrysopteron	bocagii	W. C. H. Peters	1	Vespertilio Bocagii	Peters, W.C.H. 1870. Lista de mammiferos das possessões portuguezas da Africa occidental e diagnoses de algumas especies novas. Jornal de sciencias mathematicas, physicas e naturaes 3:123-127.	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16192948	ZMB 3973	lectotype		Duque de Bragança, Angola.			NA	NA				Yemen|Senegal|Guinea|Sierra Leone|Liberia|Cote d'Ivoire|Ghana|Togo|Benin|Burkina Faso|Nigeria|Cameroon|Equatorial Guinea|Gabon|Republic of the Congo|Democratic Republic of the Congo|Central African Republic|South Sudan|Ethiopia|Uganda|Kenya|Tanzania|Rwanda|Burundi|Angola|Zambia|Malawi|Mozambique|Zimbabwe|South Africa	Africa|Asia	Afrotropic	LC	0	0	0	Myotis_bocagii	0	sciname match	Myotis_bocagii	0	Simmons, N. B., & Cirranello, A. L. (2025). Batnames.org Species List Version 1.7 (1.7). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14796586	Vespertilionidae	Myotis	Chrysopteron	bocagii	Peters	1870	1	J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa	ser. 1, 3: 125	Rufous Myotis	hildegardeae Thomas, 1904;cupreolus Thomas, 1904;dogalensis Monticelli, 1887.	Angola, Duque de Braganca.	Senegal and Liberia to S Yemen, south to Angola, Zambia, Malawi, and NE South Africa.	<a href='https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php' target='_blank'>Not Listed</a>	<a href='https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/14148/22059585/' target='_blank'>Least Concern</a>	Includes dogalensis; see Corbet (1978c). Reviewed in part by Harrison and Bates (1991). Misspelled bocagei by some authors, see Bogdanowicz and Kock (1998). No subspecies are presently recognized; see Patterson et al. (2019).		Mammal Diversity Database. (2025). Mammal Diversity Database (Version 2.2) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15007505	NA	Myotis bocagii; Myotis bocagii; Myotis bocagii; Myotis bocagii; Myotis bocagii; Myotis bocagii; bocagii; cupreolus; dogalensis; hildegardeae; bocagii; cupreolus; dogalensis; hildegardeae; hildegardeae; cupreolus; dogalensis; bocagii; cupreolus; hildegardeae; Murin de Du Bocage; Bocage-Mausohr; Ratonero de Bocage; Bocage's Banana Bat; Bocage's Hairy Bat; Bocage's Mouse-eared Bat; Rufous Hairy Bat; Rufous Mouse-eared Bat; Rufous Mouse-eared Myotis; Rufous Myotis; Bocage's Myotis; Bocage's Banana Bat; Bocage's Hairy Bat; Bocage's Mouse-eared Bat; Rufous Hairy Bat; Rufous Mouse-eared Bat; Rufous Mouse-eared Myotis; Rufous Myotis; Rufous Myotis; Rufous Myotis; Myotis bocagei; M. bocagii