Vespertilionidae
Guide for Acoustic Identification of Florida bats
Family
Database species code
Myosod or Myso
See glossary for explanation of codes
Scientific name
Myotis sodalis Miller and Allen, 1928
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 | 4120 | 1.00 | 5.99 | 3.56 | 1.26 | 1.65 | 2.59 | 4.55 | 5.11 |
| TBC | 4039 | 41.2 | 8209.5 | 165.5 | 290.3 | 77.7 | 89.8 | 154.6 | 245.5 |
| Fmin | 4120 | 38.10 | 56.74 | 40.00 | 2.43 | 38.28 | 38.65 | 40.40 | 42.33 |
| Fmax | 4120 | 46.24 | 108.11 | 67.98 | 12.78 | 51.61 | 56.34 | 77.67 | 85.11 |
| BW | 4120 | 2.86 | 67.71 | 27.98 | 13.05 | 11.87 | 16.34 | 38.09 | 45.51 |
| Fmean | 4120 | 43.01 | 64.93 | 49.36 | 4.10 | 44.43 | 45.99 | 51.86 | 54.87 |
| Fk | 4120 | 40.00 | 64.52 | 48.45 | 4.97 | 42.78 | 44.44 | 51.95 | 55.56 |
| FcH1 | 4120 | 20.00 | 31.50 | 22.37 | 2.27 | 20.20 | 20.62 | 23.81 | 25.64 |
| Fc | 4120 | 40.00 | 62.99 | 44.75 | 4.54 | 40.40 | 41.24 | 47.62 | 51.28 |
| FcH3 | 4120 | 60.00 | 94.49 | 67.12 | 6.81 | 60.60 | 61.86 | 71.43 | 76.92 |
| Sc | 4120 | -411.1 | 796.1 | 137.8 | 86.4 | 52.5 | 89.2 | 168.6 | 225.9 |
| Pmc | 4120 | 0.00 | 144.90 | 52.80 | 29.79 | 16.70 | 27.50 | 76.10 | 94.20 |
Reported by Szewczak (2018)
| Myosod | Fc | Fmax | Fmin | FmaxE | dur | uppr slp | lwr slp | slp @ Fc | total slp |
| Mean | 40.8 | 80.9 | 37.5 | 44.0 | 5.8 | 16.8 | 4.6 | 2.6 | 7.1 |
| Max | 42.0 | 90.0 | 40.0 | 47.0 | 6.6 | 21.0 | 5.8 | 4.6 | 9.2 |
| Min | 39.0 | 72.0 | 35.0 | 41.0 | 5.0 | 13.0 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 5.1 |
Source of acoustic data
Chris Corben
Known counties of distribution
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Conservation status
| Near threatened; Ver.3.1 ; Population trend - stable; evaluated 2016. (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 Unpublished report.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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