Acoustic Identification bats of Antigua and Barbuda

Family

Vespertilionidae

Scientific name

Myotis dominicensis Miller, 1902

Taxonomy follows Simmons and Cirranello (2022)

Call shape

FM reversed J broadband short duration

Vocal signature parameters

Parameters   N Min Max Mean St.Dev 10% 25% 75% 90%
Dur 411 0.1 4.5 1.6 1.3 0.2 0.4 2.6 3.7
TBC 411 0.0 540.0 57.9 54.4 3.3 10.0 76.4 108.2
Fmin 411 40.0 60.2 48.0 3.4 43.5 45.7 50.3 52.0
Fmax 411 50.0 106.7 64.2 12.5 51.3 53.5 70.8 83.3
Fmean 411 45.7 67.3 53.3 3.8 49.1 50.6 55.2 58.9
Fk 411 45.7 65.6 54.3 3.9 50.0 51.3 56.7 60.2
FcH1 411 22.1 31.0 25.4 1.8 23.4 24.1 26.3 28.0
Fc 411 44.2 62.0 50.9 3.6 46.8 48.2 52.6 55.9
FcH3 411 66.3 93.0 76.3 5.4 70.2 72.3 78.9 83.9
Sc 411 -362.7 2200.7 238.4 225.4 78.3 113.0 290.7 464.7
Pmc 411 0.0 129.1 26.5 25.4 3.2 5.7 41.2 63.4
BW 411 0.0 59.3 16.2 13.9 2.1 3.8 25.1 36.3

Source of acoustic data

Measured from full spectrum files provided by Michel Barataud

See Barataud et al., 2015

Known distribution

  • Dominica
  • Guadeloupe

    • Conservation status

    Vulnerable

    Larsen (2016)

    Citations

    Barataud, M., S. Giosa, F. Leblanc, P. Favre, and J.-F. Desmet. 2015. Sonar signals and acoustic ecology of bats from Guadeloupe and Martinique islands (West Indies). Vespère. 5: 297-332.

     

    Larsen, R. 2016. Myotis dominicensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T14155A22057933. 

     

    Lindsay, K., G. Kwiecinski, J.-P. Bacle, A. Thibou, and C. Wallace. 2017. Bats of Antigua and Barbuda their importance and conservation. Federation Family Publishing House, St. George's, Antigua.

     

    Simmons, N. B., and A. L. Cirranello. 2019. Bat Species of the World: A taxonomic and geographic database.www.batnames.org.

    Acoustic Identification bats of Antigua and Barbuda2022, all rights reserved.