Guide for Acoustic Identification of Florida bats

Family

Vespertilionidae

Database species code

Myoaus or Myau

See glossary for explanation of codes

Scientific name

Myotis austroriparius (Rhoads, 1897)

Taxonomy follows Simmons and Cirranello (2021)

Call shape

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Typical North American Myotis pulses with FM reversed J broadband pulses of short duration.

Vocal signature parameters

Parameters  N Min Max Mean St.Dev 10% 25% 75% 90%
Dur 924 1.50 6.02 3.19 1.07 1.78 2.29 4.01 4.76
TBC 858 2.1 4828.3 251.3 435.8 92.0 100.6 225.0 456.6
Fmin 924 34.04 50.00 40.89 3.60 35.56 38.10 43.48 45.38
Fmax 924 43.72 103.90 62.11 10.63 50.63 53.69 68.97 77.67
BW 924 1.70 67.63 21.22 12.20 7.87 11.53 28.59 39.48
Fmean 924 41.18 59.98 49.17 3.51 44.63 46.79 51.31 53.85
Fk 924 42.33 54.79 48.41 3.14 44.69 45.98 50.96 52.98
FcH1 924 18.96 27.03 22.55 1.45 20.84 21.39 23.53 24.69
Fc 924 37.91 54.05 45.09 2.90 41.67 42.78 47.06 49.38
FcH3 924 56.87 81.08 67.64 4.35 62.51 64.17 70.59 74.07
Sc 924 -257.91 708.75 107.69 64.38 46.24 71.34 138.85 177.13
Pmc 924 1.70 117.80 38.03 23.88 12.10 19.28 50.80 74.04

 

 

Source of acoustic data

Cynthia and George Marks

 

Chris J. Corben

Reference calls recorded by Marks are being archived at BioAcoustica and will be freely available. See Baker et al., (2015).

Known counties of distribution
  • Alachua
  • Baker
  • Bay
  • Bradford
  • Brevard
  • Calhoun
  • Charlotte
  • Citrus
  • Clay
  • Columbia
  • De Soto
  • Dixie
  • Duval
  • Escambia
  • Flagler
  • Franklin
  • Gadsden
  • Gilchrist
  • Glades
  • Gulf
  • Hamilton
  • Hardee
  • Hernando
  • Highlands
  • Hillsborough
  • Holmes
  • Indian River
  • Jackson
  • Jefferson
  • Lafayette
  • Lake
  • Leon
  • Levy
  • Liberty
  • Madison
  • Manatee
  • Marion
  • Nassau
  • Okaloosa
  • Okeechobee
  • Orange
  • Osceola
  • Pasco
  • Pinellas
  • Polk
  • Putnam
  • Santa Rosa
  • Sarasota
  • Seminole
  • St. Johns
  • Sumter
  • Suwannee
  • Taylor
  • Union
  • Volusia
  • Wakulla
  • Walton
  • Washington
    Conservation status

    Least concern; Ver.3.1 ; Population trend - stable; evaluated 2008. (I.U.C.N. 2017.)

    Notes

    See Baker et. al., (2015) for discussion of BioAcoustica and Baker and Vincent (2019) for a critique of the lack of freely available acoustic data.

    Citations

    Baker, E., B. W. Price, S. D. Rycroft, J. Hill, and V. S. Smith. 2015. BioAcoustica: a free and open repository and analysis platform for bioacoustics. Database. 2015. bav054

     

    Baker, E., and S. Vincent. 2019. A deafening silence: a lack of data and reproducibility in published bioacoustics research? Biodiversity Data Journal 7: e36783.

     

    Marks, C. S., and G. E. Marks. 2006. Bats of Florida. Pp. 176. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.

     

    Simmons, N. B., and A. L. Cirranello. 2020. Bat Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic database. http://batnames.org

     

    The IUCN 2017. Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2017-1.www.iucnredlist.org;. Downloaded on August 6, 2017.

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