Taxon name
Vespertilio murinus
Linnaeus, 1758
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National Red List Database
Taxonomic information
Scientific name
Vespertilio murinus
Linnaeus, 1758
Assessed taxon level
Species
Higher level taxonomic groupings
Vertebrates
Mammals
Species authority
Linnaeus, 1758
Location and scope
Specific locality or subnational name or regional name
United Arab Emirates (the)
Scope (of the Assessment)
National
Countries included within the scope of the assessment
United Arab Emirates (the)
Does the assessment cover a marine EEZ area(s)?
Not_assigned
Conservation Status
Assessed as
Data deficient
Criteria system used
IUCN
(see Assessment details)
Assessment rationale/justification
This species is only known from a single record in the UAE, a dead individual found in 2014. The species may be treated as marginal to the UAE, but as bats are in general very under-recorded it is considered Data Deficient. No regional adjustment is made to the Data Deficient assessment.
Assessment details
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
UAE National Red List Workshop
Criteria system used
IUCN
Reference for methods given
IUCN. 2012. IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1, Second edition. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. iv + 32pp pp. And IUCN. 2012. Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels: Version 4.0. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iii + 41pp.
URL (link) of redlist assessment or publication
https://www.moccae.gov.ae/assets/download/b352eff1/UNRL%20of%20Mammals%20-%20Report%202019.pdf.aspx?view=true
Further information
Endemism (according to assessment)
Endemic to region
Not assigned
Taxon distribution as listed in assessment
The only record of this species in the UAE, and also the first record for the Arabian Peninsula, is a specimen found dead on 13 May 2014 at the Breeding Centre for Endangered Arabian Wildlife, Sharjah, and identified on molecular (cytochrome b gene) and morphological characters (Monadjem et al. 2016). Widely distributed across the whole northern Palaearctic, from Western Europe to Siberia and northern China and the Pacific coast and south to northern Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. The nearest colonies to UAE are in western Iran and Afghanistan (Coroiu 2016).
Is there a map available in assessment?
Yes
Habitat and systems
Ecological system type
Habitat
Habitat details as listed in assessment
Across its global range, the Particoloured Bat occupies a wide range of open and wooded habitats (Coroiu 2016). It is a migratory species (Monadjem et al. 2016).
Threats and conservation measures listed
Threats listed in assessment
No information available.
History
This species was not listed by Hornby (1996) for the UAE Red List of mammals, but based on current knowledge the backcasted 1996 assessment for this species is Data Deficient.
Publication
Mallon, D., Hilton-Taylor, C., Allen, D., & Harding, K. (2019). UAE National Red List of Mammals: Marine and Terrestrial. A report to the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, United Arab Emirates (p. 41). IUCN Global Species Programme. https://bit.ly/2RdZCQR
