Murina fanjingshanensis
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| Murina fanjingshanensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Chiroptera |
| Family: | Vespertilionidae |
| Genus: | Murina |
| Species: | M. fanjingshanensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Murina fanjingshanensis He Fang, Xiao Ning, & Zhou Jiang, 2015 | |
Murina fanjingshanensis is a species of vesper bat found in China.
Murina fanjingshanensis was described as a new species in 2015.[1] The holotype had been collected in 2014 in an abandoned gold mine in the Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve of China. The species name fanjingshanensis is derived from the name of the nature reserve.[2]
Based on a 2015 analysis of mitochondrial DNA, its sister taxon is the bicolored tube-nosed bat.[2] A 2020 study that used nuclear and mitochondrial DNA, though did not include samples from the bicolored tube-nosed bat, found that it forms a clade with the following species: M. rongjiangensis, the Shuipu tube-nosed bat (M. shuipuensis), Hilgendorf's tube-nosed bat (M. hilgendorfi), M. jinchui, and the greater tube-nosed bat (M. leucogaster).[3]