Guide for Acoustic Identification of Florida bats

Family

Vespertilionidae

Database species code

Myoluc or Mylu

See glossary for explanation of codes

Scientific name

Myotis lucifugus (Le Conte, 1831)

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 2270 2.01 9.98 5.66 1.44 3.62 4.68 6.67 7.37
TBC 2173 53.0 3990.3 208.3 274.2 89.4 97.4 206.6 384.9
Fmin 2270 28.37 45.20 38.25 2.31 35.16 37.04 39.80 40.82
Fmax 2270 42.44 79.60 58.73 8.29 47.90 52.12   65.04 70.18
BW 2270 2.04 39.99 20.48 8.93 8.39 13.78 26.92 33.29
Fmean 2270 41.00 52.35 44.77 2.09 42.08   43.14 46.17 47.51
Fk 2270 40.00 52.63 44.02 2.38 41.03 42.22 45.58 47.06
FcH1 2270 18.27 22.99 20.27 0.92 19.19 19.61 20.78 21.51
Fc 2270 36.53 45.98 40.54 1.84 38.37 39.22 41.56 43.01
FcH3 2270 54.80 68.97 60.82 2.75 57.56 58.83 62.34 64.52
Sc 2270 -150.1 79.85 54.18 18.72 36.24 44.54 67.60 74.65
Pmc 2270 0.50 97.10 45.18 21.59 16.10 28.80 60.30 75.91

 

Reported by Szewczak (2018)

Myoluc Fc Fmax Fmin FmaxE dur uppr slp lwr slp slp @ Fc total slp
Mean 39.7 69.4 36.5 43.4 5.8 10.5 3.5 4.1 5.0
Max 41.0 78.0 38.0 47.0 6.7 14.0 4.6 6.2 6.7
Min 38.0 61.0 35.0 40.0 4.9 6.7 2.3 2.0 3.4

Source of acoustic data

Chris Corben

Known counties of distribution
  • Baker
  • Bay
  • Calhoun
  • Columbia
  • Duval
  • Escambia
  • Gadsden
  • Hamilton
  • Holmes
  • Jackson
  • Jefferson
  • Leon
  • Liberty
  • Madison
  • Nassau
  • Okaloosa
  • Santa Rosa
  • St. Johns
  • Suwannee
  • Taylor
  • Wakulla
  • Walton
  • Washington
    Conservation status

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

    Citations

    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

     

    Szewczak, J. M. 2018. Echolocation Call Characteristics of Eastern U.S. Bats. Echolocation call characteristics of Eastern U.S. Bats. Unpublished report.

     

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

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