Karyotype of Harrison's Tube-Nosed Bat

Abstract

The bat genus Murina contains 17 recognized species (Simmons 2005), eight of which are distributed in China (Wang 2003). Csorba and Bates (2005) described the Harrison’s tube-nosed bat, Murina harrisoni, as a new species based on a single female specimen from Kirirom National Park, Komopong Speu Province, Cambodia. They assumed this species was widespread in the forests of Southeast Asia, but its distribution is unclear because no additional specimens have been recorded since the first capture in Cambodia. We collected an adult female specimen of this species in September 2008 in Jianfengling, Hainan Island, China. This second specimen, confirmed as Murina harrisoni, provides a new record for China. The present paper is the first report describing the karyotype of M. harrisoni, with additional morphological data based on the second specimen of the species.