Scott's mouse-eared bat [SEP] parent taxon
Scott's mouse-eared bat
Scott's mouse-eared bat ("Myotis scotti") is a species of vesper bat. It is found only in Ethiopia, in subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Taxonomy and etymology.
Scott's mouse-eared bat was described as a new species in 1927 by British zoologist Oldfield Thomas.
The eponym for the species name ""scotti"" was H. H. Scott.
Scott had obtained the holotype near
mouse-eared bat, Bechstein's bat, Natterer's bat, whiskered bat, Daubenton's bat, brown long-eared bat, grey long-eared bat, barbastelle, serotine bat, parti-coloured bat, common pipistrelle, Nathusius' pipistrelle, lesser noctule and common noctule.
The rodents include several voles (common vole, field vole, European pine vole etc.), harvest mice, hazel dormouse, garden dormouse, edible dormouse, red squirrel, striped field mouse, wood mouse, yellow-necked