The structure of baculum in Myotis myotis and Myotis blythi (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Turkey

Authors : İrfan ALBAYRAK

Pages : 229-233

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Publication Date : 0000-00-00

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :A comparison was made of the shape and size of the bacula of 32 Myotis myotis insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Borkhausen, 1797); and 26 Myotis blythi insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Tomes, 1857); collected from Turkey. It was determined that baculum size does not distinguish the two species but baculum shape distinguishes them.
Keywords : Baculum, Myotis myotis, Myotis blythi, Turkey