Vespertilio murinus | UAE National Red List of Mammals: Marine and Terrestrial

Taxa
Vespertilio murinus | Linnaeus, 1758
Publication
UAE National Red List of Mammals: Marine and Terrestrial
Location
Countries in Assessment
United Arab Emirates
Country ISO code(s)
ARE
Does the assessment cover a marine EEZ area(s)?
Off
Scope (Assessment)
National
Taxon
Taxonomic Group
Vertebrates
Taxonomic Group Level 2
Mammals
Assessed taxon level
Species
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).
Habitats and Ecology
Ecological system type
Terrestrial system
No
Freshwater system
No
Marine system
No
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).
Is there a map available in assessment?
Yes
Assessed status
Asessment status in full
Data deficient
Assessment status abreviation
DD
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.
About the assessment
Assessment year
2018
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
UAE National Red List Workshop
Affliation of assessor(s)/contributors/reviewers listed on assessment
Government
IGO
Assessor affiliation specific
Government|IGO
Criteria system
Criteria system specifics
IUCN v3.1
Criteria system used
IUCN
Criteria Citation
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
Endemism
Endemic to region
Not_assigned
Endemism Notes
Is an endemic?: Not_assigned
Conservation
Threats listed in assessment
No information available.
Conservation Measures

Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:

Further information
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.
Scientific Name Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus
Vespertilio murinus Animalia Chordata Mammalia Chiroptera Vespertilionidae Vespertilio