Lesser large-footed Bat (Myotis hasseltii) from Southwest Sri Lanka

Abstract

Red List of IUCN categorized this species as of Least Concern (Bates et al. 2020), the National Red List of Sri Lanka lists it as Near Threatened (IUCN-MOE 2012). Myotis hasseltii is a relatively rare bat species in Sri Lanka, and has a patchy distribution there with the few previous locality records coming from the northern, eastern and southern parts of the dry zone of the island (