http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/format	name_CH1_1980	name_MSW1_1982	name_CH3_1991	name_MSW2_1993	name_Koopman_1994	name_MSW3_2005	name_HMW_2019	name_BatNames_2022	name_MDD_2022	name_IUCN_2022	name_BatNames_2023	name_MDD_2023	name_MDD_2025_2.0	name_batnames_2025_1.7	name_MDD_2025_2.2	column151	taxonomic_notes_concatenated	column171	synonyms_CH1	subspecies__MSW2	synonyms__MSW1	synonyms_CH3	synonyms_MSW2	subspecies_Koopman94_interpreted	subspecies_MSW3_interpreted	synonym_MSW3_interpreted	subspecies_HMW_interpreted	synonym_HMW_interpreted	subspecies_batnames_interpreted	synonym_batnames_interpreted	synonym_MDD_interpreted	synonym_IUCN_interpreted	subspecies_batnames2023_interpreted	synonym_batnames2023_interpreted	synonym_MDD2023_interpreted	synonym_MDD2025_interpreted	subspecies_batnames2025_interpreted	synonyms_batnames2025_interpreted	nominalNames	column391	docOrigin_CH1	commonName_CH1	distribution_CH1	docOrigin_MSW1	column451	typeLocality_MSW1	authority_MSW1	year_MSW1	citation_MSW1	distribution	comment_MSW1	docOrigin_CH3	commonName_CH3	distribution_CH3	docOrigin_MSW2	authority_MSW2	year_MSW2	citation_MSW2	comments_MSW2	distribution_MSW2	typeLocality_MSW2	docOrigin_Koopman94	authority_Koopman94	year_Koopman94	description_Koopman94	distribution_Koopman94	diversity_Koopman94	subspecies_Koopman94	page	rank	name	authority	year	parent	parent_rank	corrected_name	actual_species_count	claimed_species_count	dental_formula	description	diversity	full_subspecies_text	name_line	species_index	subspecies	synonym	text	docOrigin_MSW3	order_MSW3	family_MSW3	subfamily_MSW3	tribe_MSW3	name_MSW3	genus_MSW3	subgenus_MSW3	species_MSW3	authoritySpeciesAuthor_MSW3	(parentheses (1=author & date in parentheses)_MSW3	authoritySpeciesYear_MSW3	actualDate_MSW3	citation_MSW3	volume_MSW3	issue_MSW3	pages_MSW3	type_species_MSW3	commonName_MSW3	typeLocality_MSW3	distribution_MSW3	status_MSW3	synonym_MSW3	comments_MSW3	docId_HMW	docOrigin_HMW	docISBN_HMW	docName_HMW	docMasterId_HMW	docPageNumber_HMW	derivedFrom_HMW	name_HMW	family_HMW	genus_HMW	species_HMW	authoritySpeciesAuthor_HMW	authoritySpeciesYear	commonNames_HMW	taxonomy_HMW	subspeciesAndDistribution_HMW	descriptiveNotes_HMW	habitat_HMW	foodAndFeeding_HMW	breeding_HMW	activityPatterns_HMW	movementsHomeRangeAndSocialOrganization_HMW	statusAndConservation_HMW	bibliography_HMW	distributionImageURL_HMW	verbatimText_HMW	docOrigin_batnames	family_batnames	name_batnames	genus_batnames	subgenus_batnames	species_batnames	authoritySpeciesAuthor_batnames	date_batnames	parentheses_batnames (1=author & date in parentheses)	citation_batnames	docPageNumber_batnames	common Name_batnames	synonyms_batnames	type_locality_batnames	Distribution_batnames	CITES_batnames	IUCN_batnames	comments_batnames	docOrigin_MDD	name_MDD	phylosort_MDD	mainCommonName_MDD	otherCommonNames_MDD	subclass_MDD	infraclass_MDD	magnorder_MDD	superorder_MDD	order_MDD	suborder_MDD	infraorder_MDD	parvorder_MDD	superfamily_MDD	family_MDD	subfamily_MDD	tribe_MDD	genus_MDD	subgenus_MDD	specificEpithet_MDD	authoritySpeciesAuthor_MDD	authoritySpeciesYear_MDD	authorityParentheses_MDD	originalNameCombination_MDD	authoritySpeciesCitation_MDD	authoritySpeciesLink_MDD	holotypeVoucher_MDD	holotypeVoucherURIs_MDD	typeLocality_MDD	typeLocalityLatitude_MDD	typeLocalityLongitude_MDD	nominalNames_MDD	taxonomyNotes_MDD	taxonomyNotesCitation_MDD	countryDistribution_MDD	continentDistribution_MDD	biogeographicRealm_MDD	iucnStatus_MDD	extinct_MDD	domestic_MDD	flagged_MDD	CMW_sciName_MDD	diffSinceCMW_MDD	MSW3_matchtype_MDD	MSW3_sciName_MDD	diffSinceMSW3_MDD	docOrigin_IUCN	internalTaxonId_IUCN	NAME_IUCN	kingdomName_IUCN	phylumName_IUCN	className_IUCN	orderName_IUCN	familyName_IUCN	genusName_IUCN	speciesName_IUCN	authoritySpeciesAuthorYear_IUCN	taxonomicNotes_IUCN	assessmentId_IUCN	scientificName_IUCN	redlistCategory_IUCN	redlistCriteria_IUCN	yearPublished_IUCN	assessmentDate_IUCN	criteriaVersion_IUCN	language_IUCN	rationale_IUCN	habitat_IUCN	threats_IUCN	population_IUCN	populationTrend_IUCN	range_IUCN	useTrade_IUCN	systems_IUCN	conservationActions_IUCN	realm_IUCN	yearLastSeen_IUCN	possiblyExtinct_IUCN	possiblyExtinctInTheWild_IUCN	scopes_IUCN	docOrigin_batnames2023	FAMILY_batnames2023	GENUS_batnames2023	SUBGENUS_batnames2023	SPECIES_batnames2023	authoritySpeciesAuthor_batnames2023	authoritySpeciesYearbatnames2023	PARENTHESES_batnames2023 (1=AUTHOR & DATE IN PARENTHESES)	CITATION_batnames2023	PAGES_batnames2023	COMMON NAME_batnames2023	SYNONYMS_batnames2023	TYPE LOCALITY_batnames2023	DISTRIBUTION_batnames2023	CITES_batnames2023	IUCN_batnames2023	COMMENTS_batnames2023	name MDD2023	id_MDD2023	phylosort_MDD2023	mainCommonName_MDD2023	otherCommonNames_MDD2023	subclass_MDD2023	infraclass_MDD2023	magnorder_MDD2023	superorder_MDD2023	order_MDD2023	suborder_MDD2023	infraorder_MDD2023	parvorder_MDD2023	superfamily_MDD2023	Family_mdd2023	subfamily_MDD2023	tribe_MDD2023	genus_MDD2023	subgenus_MDD2023	specificEpithet_MDD2023	authoritySpeciesAuthor_MDD2023	authoritySpeciesYear_MDD2023	authorityParentheses_MDD2023	originalNameCombination_MDD2023	authoritySpeciesCitation_MDD2023	authoritySpeciesLink_MDD2023	holotypeVoucher_MDD2023	holotypeVoucherURIs_MDD2023	typeLocality_MDD2023	typeLocalityLatitude_MDD2023	typeLocalityLongitude_MDD2023	nominalNames_MDD2023	taxonomyNotes_MDD2023	taxonomyNotesCitation_MDD2023	distributionNotes_MDD2023	distributionNotesCitation_MDD2023	subregionDistribution_MDD2023	countryDistribution_MDD2023	continentDistribution_MDD2023	biogeographicRealm_MDD2023	iucnStatus_MDD2023	extinct_MDD2023	domestic_MDD2023	flagged_MDD2023	CMW_sciName_MDD2023	diffSinceCMW_MDD2023	MSW3_matchtype_MDD2023	MSW3_sciName_MDD2023	diffSinceMSW3_MDD2023	docOrigin_MDD2025	sciName	id	phylosort	mainCommonName	otherCommonNames	subclass	infraclass	magnorder	superorder	order	suborder	infraorder	parvorder	superfamily	family	subfamily	tribe	genus	subgenus	specificEpithet	authoritySpeciesAuthor	authorityParentheses	originalNameCombination	authoritySpeciesCitation	authoritySpeciesLink	typeVoucher	typeKind	typeVoucherURIs	typeLocality	typeLocalityLatitude	typeLocalityLongitude	taxonomyNotes	taxonomyNotesCitation	distributionNotes	distributionNotesCitation	subregionDistribution	countryDistribution	continentDistribution	biogeographicRealm	iucnStatus	extinct	domestic	flagged	CMW_sciName	diffSinceCMW	MSW3_matchtype	MSW3_sciName	diffSinceMSW3	docOrigin_batnames2025	Family	Genus	Subgenus	Species	Author	Date	Parentheses (1=author & date in parentheses)	Citation	Pages	Common Name	Synonyms	Type Locality	Distribution	CITES	IUCN	Comments	column3781	column3791	subtribe	CONCAT_ALTNAMES
line:xlsx:hash://sha256/181a039844a33e66a35a457b7ece741051086608e425a040051b79581d606b97!/Sheet1!/L976	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet	Myotis welwitschi	Myotis welwitschii	Myotis welwitschii	Myotis welwitschii	Myotis welwitschii	Myotis welwitschii	Myotis welwitschii	Myotis welwitschii	Myotis welwitschii	Myotis welwitschii	Myotis welwitschii	Myotis welwitschii	Myotis welwitschii	Myotis welwitschii	Myotis welwitschii		[MSW2] Subgenus Myotis.; [MSW3] Reviewed by Kock (1967) and Ratcliffe (2002). Sometimes misspelled welwitschi but the original spelling is welwitschii. Apparently closely related to emarginatus; see Ruedi and Mayer (2001).; [HMW] Scotophilus welwitschii]. E. Gray, 1866 , “ Angola .” Subgenus Chrysopteron. See M. tricolor and also M. rufoniger. Monotypic.; [batnames2022] Reviewed by Kock (1967) and Ratcliffe (2002). Sometimes misspelled welwitschi but the original spelling is welwitschii .Apparently closely related to emarginatus ; see Ruedi and Mayer (2001). Patterson et al. (2019) found evidence of two subclades, which may be species or subspecies.; [IUCN] This species is monotypic (Meester et al. 1986; Simmons 2005). No subspecies are recognised.; [batnames2023] Reviewed by Kock (1967) and Ratcliffe (2002). Sometimes misspelled welwitschi but the original spelling is welwitschii .Apparently closely related to emarginatus ; see Ruedi and Mayer (2001). Patterson et al. (2019) found evidence of two subclades, which may be species or subspecies.; [batnames2025_1.7] Reviewed by Kock (1967) and Ratcliffe (2002). Sometimes misspelled welwitschi but the original spelling is welwitschii.Apparently closely related to emarginatus; see Ruedi and Mayer (2001). Patterson et al. (2019) found evidence of two subclades, which may be species or subspecies.						venustus.			venustus			welwitschii 	welwitschii - venustus	welwitschii, venustus	This species is monotypic (Meester et al. 1986; Simmons 2005). No subspecies are recognised.	welwitschii 	welwitschii - venustus	welwitschii, venustus	welwitschii, venustus, welwitschi	welwitschii	welwitschii - venustus	welwitschii (J. E. Gray, 1866)|venustus (Matschie, 1899)|welwitschi Hayman, 1963 [incorrect subsequent spelling]		Corbet, G.B. and Hill, J.E. 1980. A World List of Mammalian Species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp.	Welwitsch's bat	Ethiopia – Zaire, Mozambique, S Africa	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 welwitschii	Angola.	Gray	1866	Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866:211.	Distribution: Ranging from Ethiopia to Angola and 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	Welwitsch's hairy bat	Ethiopia – Angola, S Africa	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.	Gray	1866	Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866:211.	Subgenus Myotis.	South Africa to Ethiopia.	NE Angola.		GRAY	1866	Size fairly large (forearm length, 54-59 mm; condylobasal length, 16-20 mm). Ear moderate in size. Braincase medium in height and rostrum somewhat shortened. Nasal emargination medium. Middle upper premolar displaced medially from the toothrow. Anterior and middle lower incisors four-cusped. Wing membranes conspicuously parti-colored in black and red.	Distribution: Ranging from Ethiopia to Angola and Transvaal.	No subspecies are currently recognized.		101	species	M. welwitschii	GRAY	1866	Myotis	subgenus	Myotis welwitschii				Size fairly large (forearm length, 54-59 mm; condylobasal length, 16-20 mm). Ear moderate in size. Braincase medium in height and rostrum somewhat shortened. Nasal emargination medium. Middle upper premolar displaced medially from the toothrow. Anterior and middle lower incisors four-cusped. Wing membranes conspicuously parti-colored in black and red.	No subspecies are currently recognized.		6. M. welwitschii (GRAY 1866) [formosus group].	6	NA			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 welwitschii	Myotis		welwitschii	Gray	y	1866		Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.	1866		211		Welwitsch's Myotis	NE Angola.	South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Angola, Zambia, Dem. Rep. Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia.	IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).	venustus Matschie, 1899.	Reviewed by Kock (1967) and Ratcliffe (2002). Sometimes misspelled welwitschi but the original spelling is welwitschii. Apparently closely related to emarginatus; see Ruedi and Mayer (2001).	4C3D87E8FF466AF9FA86958317F9B7BA	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	951	zip:hash://sha256/ec5fd314a06aba1a7b0b72f23e54ac625ae272bd98f82f1d01f4c09627d9e8e0!/treatments-xml-main/data/4C/3D/87/4C3D87E8FF466AF9FA86958317F9B7BA.xml	Myotis welwitschii	Vespertilionidae	Myotis	welwitschii		1866	Murin de Welwitsch @fr | Welwitsch-Mausohr @de | Ratonero de Welwitsch @es | \Welwitch's Bat @en | Welwitsch's Hairy Bat @en | Welwitsch’s Mouse-eared Bat @en	Scotophilus welwitschii]. E. Gray, 1866 , “ Angola .” Subgenus Chrysopteron. See M. tricolor and also M. rufoniger. Monotypic.	Patchily in sub-Saharan Africa, in SE Guinea , and from Ethiopia and South Sudan through W Uganda , Rwanda , Burundi , S DR Congo , and Angola to N & NE South Africa .	Head-body c¢.57 67 mm , tail 55-65 mm , ear 19-25 mm , hindfoot 9- 5-13 mm , forearm 52-60 mm ; weight 14-19 g . Sexes similar. Pelage of Welwitsch’s Myotis is dense and woolly, without sheen; dorsally orange (hairs tricolored, cream with blackish-brown base and orange tip; mid-dorsal hairs 7-8 mm ); ventrally cream, slightly suffused with orange (hairs bicolored, blackish brown with cream tip). Wings strikingly particolored, with outer arm-wing and hand-wing black, bones outlined in orange, and inner arm-wing orange with small black spots. Wing membranes naked, attached to base offirst toe; interfemoral membrane orange with small black spots, ventral surface with sparse backward-pointing hairs, and posterior margin with sparse fringe of straight, bristle-like hairs between tips of calcars and tip of tail. Ears orange with small black spots and black edges, outer margin without notch, and of medium length; tragus long, bluntly pointed, measuring about one-half ear length. Tibia naked. Muzzle naked, orange with black spots. Skull large and robust (greatest length of skull 18-6-20- 8 mm ); profile of forehead moderately concave;sagittal crest low anteriorly, absent posteriorly. P* reduced, being partially or fully displaced lingually; P? and P* separated or in contact; I, and I, with four cusps, three well developed and the fourth low and inconspicuous. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 44 and FNa = 50 ( South Africa ), X = submetacentric, Y = submetacentric.	Typically in Afro-montane habitats at elevations over 2000 m , including forest in much of East and Central Africa, and grassland nearforest in Guinea ; up to 2200 m in Ethiopia . Also at lower elevations, occurring in wetter and drier miombo woodland and riverine woodland at 100-1000 m in Malawi ; woodland savanna in south-central and southern Africa; and coastal forest surrounded by thornveld in KwaZulu-Natal.	Fecal pellets from one bat contained remains of small beetles; captive bats prefer softshelled insects. Recorded flying low over streams and a farm pool, which suggests that the species may forage by trawling over open water like Bocage’s Myotis ( M. bocagii ). Wing loading very low, aspect ratio low, flight fast or slow with great maneuverability; able to take off from ground.	No information.	Recorded calls of two individuals from Soutpansberg, South Africa , had the following parameters: maximum frequency 73-8 kHz, minimum frequency 33-8 kHz and 34 kHz,frequency of knee 52-9 kHz and 53 kHz, characteristic frequency 50 kHz and 50-3 kHz, slope 563 OPS, and duration 2-1 milliseconds.	Welwitsch’s Myotis has been found roosting singly, but data are scarce. During the day, it has been seen hanging in bushes and trees, where well camouflaged by resemblance to dead leaves. In Malawi , one individual was found in furled leaf of banana plant, although there were no other record of banana leaves being used as day roost, despite almost two years of intensive search.	Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List.	ACR (2017) | Ansell & Dowsett (1988) | Csorba, Chou Cheng-Han et al. (2014) | Happold, M. (2013bm) | Linden et al. (2014) | Rautenbach et al. (1993) | Ruedi & Mayer (2001) | Taylor, Sowler et al. (2013)	https://zenodo.org/record/6398835/files/figure.png	427. Welwitsch’s Myotis Myotis welwitschii French: Murin de Welwitsch / German: Welwitsch-Mausohr / Spanish: Ratonero de Welwitsch Other common names: \Welwitch's Bat , Welwitsch's Hairy Bat , Welwitsch’s Mouse-eared Bat Taxonomy. Scotophilus welwitschii]. E. Gray, 1866 , “ Angola .” Subgenus Chrysopteron. See M. tricolor and also M. rufoniger. Monotypic. Distribution. Patchily in sub-Saharan Africa, in SE Guinea , and from Ethiopia and South Sudan through W Uganda , Rwanda , Burundi , S DR Congo , and Angola to N & NE South Africa . Descriptive notes. Head-body c¢.57 67 mm , tail 55-65 mm , ear 19-25 mm , hindfoot 9- 5-13 mm , forearm 52-60 mm ; weight 14-19 g . Sexes similar. Pelage of Welwitsch’s Myotis is dense and woolly, without sheen; dorsally orange (hairs tricolored, cream with blackish-brown base and orange tip; mid-dorsal hairs 7-8 mm ); ventrally cream, slightly suffused with orange (hairs bicolored, blackish brown with cream tip). Wings strikingly particolored, with outer arm-wing and hand-wing black, bones outlined in orange, and inner arm-wing orange with small black spots. Wing membranes naked, attached to base offirst toe; interfemoral membrane orange with small black spots, ventral surface with sparse backward-pointing hairs, and posterior margin with sparse fringe of straight, bristle-like hairs between tips of calcars and tip of tail. Ears orange with small black spots and black edges, outer margin without notch, and of medium length; tragus long, bluntly pointed, measuring about one-half ear length. Tibia naked. Muzzle naked, orange with black spots. Skull large and robust (greatest length of skull 18-6-20- 8 mm ); profile of forehead moderately concave;sagittal crest low anteriorly, absent posteriorly. P* reduced, being partially or fully displaced lingually; P? and P* separated or in contact; I, and I, with four cusps, three well developed and the fourth low and inconspicuous. Chromosomal complement has 2n = 44 and FNa = 50 ( South Africa ), X = submetacentric, Y = submetacentric. Habitat. Typically in Afro-montane habitats at elevations over 2000 m , including forest in much of East and Central Africa, and grassland nearforest in Guinea ; up to 2200 m in Ethiopia . Also at lower elevations, occurring in wetter and drier miombo woodland and riverine woodland at 100-1000 m in Malawi ; woodland savanna in south-central and southern Africa; and coastal forest surrounded by thornveld in KwaZulu-Natal. Food and Feeding. Fecal pellets from one bat contained remains of small beetles; captive bats prefer softshelled insects. Recorded flying low over streams and a farm pool, which suggests that the species may forage by trawling over open water like Bocage’s Myotis ( M. bocagii ). Wing loading very low, aspect ratio low, flight fast or slow with great maneuverability; able to take off from ground. Breeding. No information. Activity patterns. Recorded calls of two individuals from Soutpansberg, South Africa , had the following parameters: maximum frequency 73-8 kHz, minimum frequency 33-8 kHz and 34 kHz,frequency of knee 52-9 kHz and 53 kHz, characteristic frequency 50 kHz and 50-3 kHz, slope 563 OPS, and duration 2-1 milliseconds. Movements, Home range and Social organization. Welwitsch’s Myotis has been found roosting singly, but data are scarce. During the day, it has been seen hanging in bushes and trees, where well camouflaged by resemblance to dead leaves. In Malawi , one individual was found in furled leaf of banana plant, although there were no other record of banana leaves being used as day roost, despite almost two years of intensive search. Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. Bibliography. ACR (2017), Ansell & Dowsett (1988), Csorba, Chou Cheng-Han et al. (2014), Happold, M. (2013bm), Linden et al. (2014), Rautenbach et al. (1993), Ruedi & Mayer (2001), Taylor, Sowler et al. (2013).	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 welwitschii	Myotis	Chrysopteron	welwitschii	Gray	1866	1	Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.	1869:31:00	Welwitsch's Myotis	 venustus Matschie, 1899.	NE Angola.	South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Angola, Zambia, Dem. Rep. Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia.	Not listed.	Least Concern	Reviewed by Kock (1967) and Ratcliffe (2002). Sometimes misspelled welwitschi but the original spelling is welwitschii .Apparently closely related to emarginatus ; see Ruedi and Mayer (2001). Patterson et al. (2019) found evidence of two subclades, which may be species or subspecies.	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 welwitschii	23	Welwitsch's Myotis	Welwitsch's Bat|Welwitsch's Hairy Bat|Welwitsch's Mouse-eared Bat	Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	CHIROPTERA	VESPERTILIONIFORMES	NA	NA	VESPERTILIONOIDEA	VESPERTILIONIDAE	MYOTINAE	NA	Myotis	Chrysopteron	welwitschii	J. E. Gray	1866	1	Scotophilus_welwitschii	Gray, J. E. (1866). Notice of a new bat (Scotophilus welwitschii) from Angola. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1866, 211.	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/90954#page/281/mode/1up	BM 1866.4.12.2		"Angola."			welwitschii (J. E. Gray, 1866)|venustus (Matschie, 1899)	NA	NA	Guinea|Ethiopia|South Sudan|Uganda|Kenya|Rwanda|Burundi|Democratic Republic of the Congo|Tanzania|Angola|Zambia|Malawi|Mozambique|Zimbabwe|South Africa|Eswatini|Lesotho	Africa	Afrotropic	LC	0	0	0	Myotis_welwitschii	0	sciname match	Myotis_welwitschii	0	IUCN. 2022. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-1. https://www.iucnredlist.org. Accessed on [28 September, 2022].	14211	Myotis welwitschii	ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	CHIROPTERA	VESPERTILIONIDAE	Myotis	welwitschii	(Gray, 1866)	This species is monotypic (Meester et al. 1986; Simmons 2005). No subspecies are recognised.	20000000	Myotis welwitschii	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	The species has been recorded from a range of habitats including tropical dry forest, montane tropical moist forest, both dry and moist savanna, shrublands, and high altitude grassland. Animals have been encountered roosting in buildings, caves and dense vegetation (including rolled banana leaves).	There appear to be no major threats to this species as a whole.	Although this species is widespread, it does not appear to be particularly common.	Unknown	This species has been widely, but patchily, recorded over much of East Africa and southern Africa, parts of southern Central Africa, and with a single West African locality in southeastern Guinea. In East and southern Africa it is distributed from Ethiopia and the Sudan in the north, through Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi, to Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and northeastern South Africa. In Central Africa it is largely confined to southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Angola, Rwanda and Burundi and western Uganda. It has not \been recorded from Namibia or Botswana.		Terrestrial	This species has been recorded from the Sengwa Wildlife Research Area and Kruger National Park in South Africa, and seem likely to be present in additional East or southern African protected areas. No direct conservation measures are 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	welwitschii	Gray	1866	1	Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.	1869:31:00	Welwitsch's Myotis	 venustus Matschie, 1899.	NE Angola.	South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Angola, Zambia, Dem. Rep. Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia.	Not listed.	Least Concern	Reviewed by Kock (1967) and Ratcliffe (2002). Sometimes misspelled welwitschi but the original spelling is welwitschii .Apparently closely related to emarginatus ; see Ruedi and Mayer (2001). Patterson et al. (2019) found evidence of two subclades, which may be species or subspecies.	Myotis welwitschii	1005485	23	Welwitsch's Myotis	Welwitsch's Bat|Welwitsch's Hairy Bat|Welwitsch's Mouse-eared Bat	Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	CHIROPTERA	VESPERTILIONIFORMES	NA	NA	VESPERTILIONOIDEA	Vespertilionidae	MYOTINAE	NA	Myotis	Chrysopteron	welwitschii	J. E. Gray	1866	1	Scotophilus_welwitschii	Gray, J. E. (1866). Notice of a new bat (Scotophilus welwitschii) from Angola. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1866, 211.	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/90954#page/281/mode/1up	BM 1866.4.12.2		"Angola."			welwitschii (J. E. Gray, 1866)|venustus (Matschie, 1899)	NA	NA				Guinea|Ethiopia|South Sudan|Uganda|Kenya|Rwanda|Burundi|Democratic Republic of the Congo|Tanzania|Angola|Zambia|Malawi|Mozambique|Zimbabwe|South Africa|Eswatini|Lesotho	Africa	Afrotropic	LC	0	0	0	Myotis_welwitschii	0	sciname match	Myotis_welwitschii	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_welwitschii	1005485	23	Welwitsch's Myotis	Welwitsch's Bat|Welwitsch's Hairy Bat|Welwitsch's Mouse-eared Bat	Theria	Placentalia	Boreoeutheria	Laurasiatheria	Chiroptera	Yangochiroptera	NA	NA	Vespertilionoidea	Vespertilionidae	Myotinae	NA	Myotis	Chrysopteron	welwitschii	J. E. Gray	1	Scotophilus welwitschii	Gray, J.E. 1866-09. Notice of a new bat (_Scotophilus welwitschii_) from Angola. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866(2):211.	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28627683	BMNH:Mamm:1866.4.12.2	holotype	https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/35dd7a22-42b5-48e4-b05c-27b3d690eaeb	"Angola."			NA	NA				Guinea|Ethiopia|South Sudan|Uganda|Kenya|Rwanda|Burundi|Democratic Republic of the Congo|Tanzania|Angola|Zambia|Malawi|Mozambique|Zimbabwe|South Africa|Eswatini|Lesotho	Africa	Afrotropic	LC	0	0	0	Myotis_welwitschii	0	sciname match	Myotis_welwitschii	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	welwitschii	Gray	1866	1	Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.	1869:31:00	Welwitsch's Myotis	venustus Matschie, 1899.	NE Angola.	South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Angola, Zambia, Dem. Rep. Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia.	<a href='https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php' target='_blank'>Not Listed</a>	<a href='https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/14211/22068792/' target='_blank'>Least Concern</a>	Reviewed by Kock (1967) and Ratcliffe (2002). Sometimes misspelled welwitschi but the original spelling is welwitschii.Apparently closely related to emarginatus; see Ruedi and Mayer (2001). Patterson et al. (2019) found evidence of two subclades, which may be species or subspecies.		Mammal Diversity Database. (2025). Mammal Diversity Database (Version 2.2) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15007505	NA	Myotis welwitschii; Myotis welwitschii; Myotis welwitschii; Myotis welwitschii; Myotis welwitschii; Myotis welwitschii; venustus; venustus; welwitschii; venustus; Murin de Welwitsch; Welwitsch-Mausohr; Ratonero de Welwitsch; \Welwitch's Bat; Welwitsch's Hairy Bat; Welwitsch’s Mouse-eared Bat; Welwitsch's Myotis; Welwitsch's Bat; Welwitsch's Hairy Bat; Welwitsch's Mouse-eared Bat; Welwitsch's Myotis; Welwitsch's Myotis; M. welwitschii