Bokhara whiskered bat
The Bocharic myotis or Bokhara whiskered bat (Myotis bucharensis ) is a species of mouse-eared bat in the family Vespertilionidae, described in 1950, and indigenous to Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
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starts withThe Bocharic myotis is only known from Central Asia. The species was first documented in Tajikistan; between 1959 and 1963, four individuals were documented near Samarqand and Tashkent, Uzbekistan. It has been speculated that it may also occur in Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Since investigators failed to locate the species during field trips in the 1970s and 1980s, the International Union for Conservation of Nature suggested that M. bucharensis was potentially extinct in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. In 2019, a male Bocharic myotis was captured near the Zeravshan river in Tajikistan, confirming that the species is still present there.
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