Eastern Small-Footed Bat
Myotis leibii (Audubon & Bachman, 1842)

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Trogloxene

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from 22 counties across six states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia

Counties

Arkansas

Newton, Searcy

Georgia

Dade, Union

Kentucky

Barren, Breckinridge, Carter, Edmonson, Jackson, Lee, Letcher, Menifee, Rockcastle, Wayne

Pennsylvania

Bucks, Lycoming, Mifflin, Somerset

Tennessee

Campbell, Carter, Fentress

Virginia

Lee

Conservation and management

IUCN Red List

EN Endangered

Assessed in 2018.

NatureServe

G4 Apparently Secure

National ranks

United States

N3 Vulnerable

Canada

N2 Imperiled

Subnational ranks

North Carolina

S2 Imperiled

Oklahoma

S1 Critically Imperiled

Kentucky

S2 Imperiled

Indiana

S2 Imperiled

Ohio

SH Possibly Extirpated

Illinois

S1 Critically Imperiled

New York

S2 Imperiled

Vermont

S1 Critically Imperiled

Maryland

S1 Critically Imperiled

New Jersey

S1 Critically Imperiled

Massachusetts

S1 Critically Imperiled

Virginia

S2 Imperiled

Connecticut

S1B Critically Imperiled (breeding)

South Carolina

S2 Imperiled

District of Columbia

SNR Unranked

Missouri

S2 Imperiled

Georgia

S2 Imperiled

West Virginia

S2 Imperiled

Pennsylvania

S2 Imperiled

Arkansas

S1 Critically Imperiled

New Hampshire

S1 Critically Imperiled

Tennessee

S2 Imperiled

Maine

S1 Critically Imperiled

Quebec

S1 Critically Imperiled

Ontario

S2 Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

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• Barr, T.C., Jr. & Kuehne, R.A. 1971. Ecological studies in the Mammoth Cave system of Kentucky. II. The Ecosystem. Annales de Speleologie 26: 47–96. doi:10.5038/1827-806X.3.1.10
• Collins, J. & Sanders, C. 2016. A summary of bat-friendly gates and applications in Pennsylvania. In: Butchkoski, C.M., Reeder, D.M., Turner, G.G. & Whidden, H.P. (eds), Conservation and Ecology of Pennsylvania's Bats, pp. 201–208. The Pennsylvania Academy of Science, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Johnson, J.S., Scafini, M.R., Sewall, B.J. & Turner, G.G. 2016. Hibernating bat species in Pennsylvania use colder winter habitats following the arrival of white-nose syndrome. In: Butchkoski, C.M., Reeder, D.M., Turner, G.G. & Whidden, H.P. (eds), Conservation and Ecology of Pennsylvania's Bats, pp. 181–199. The Pennsylvania Academy of Science, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Lamb, J. & Wyckoff, G. 2010. White-nose syndrome monitoring and response report for Tennessee. Tennessee Bat Working Group. 24 pp.
• McDaniel, V.R. & Gardner, J.E. 1977. Cave fauna of Arkansas: vertebrate taxa. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 31: 68–71. https://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas/vol31/iss1/22.
• McLaren, S.B. & Wible, J.R. 2016. Pennsylvania bats preserved as museum specimens: a storehouse of information. In: Butchkoski, C.M., Reeder, D.M., Turner, G.G. & Whidden, H.P. (eds), Conservation and Ecology of Pennsylvania's Bats, pp. 63–74. The Pennsylvania Academy of Science, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Trumbore, L.E., Reynolds, R.J., Thomas, S.C., Orndorff, W., Cramphorn, B., Gladstone, N.S., Harden, C.W., Lewis, J.J., Milne, M.A., Ober, K.A., Shear, W.A., Stephen, C.D.R. & Zigler, K.S. 2024. Cave biodiversity of Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 86: 13–24. doi:10.4311/2022LSC0116
• Zigler, K.S., Niemiller, M.L., Stephen, C.D.R., Ayala, B.N., Milne, M.A., Gladstone, N.S., Engel, A.S., Jensen, J.B., Camp, C.D., Ozier, J.C. & Cressler, A. 2020. Biodiversity from caves and other subterranean habitats of Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 125–167. doi:10.4311/2019LSC0125

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