Griffiths, Faculty Advisor, Thomas

Skibins, Jeffrey

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Illinois Wesleyan UniversityDigital Commons @ IWUJohn Wesley Powell Student ResearchConference 1991, 2nd Annual JWP ConferenceApr 27th, 12:00 PM - 4:30 PMAn Investigation of the Validity of the Bat SpeciesMyotis Sodalis (Chiroptera Vespertilionidae)Jeffrey SkibinsIllinois Wesleyan UniversityThomas Griffiths, Faculty AdvisorIllinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprcThis Event is brought to you for free and open access by The Ames Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Center for Curricular and FacultyDevelopment, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Commons @ IWU bythe faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@iwu.edu.©Copyright is owned by the author of this document.Skibins, Jeffrey and Griffiths, Faculty Advisor, Thomas, "An Investigation of the Validity of the Bat Species Myotis Sodalis(Chiroptera Vespertilionidae)" (1991). John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference. 8.http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/1991/posters/8AN INVESTIGATION OF THE VALIDITY OF THE BAT SPECIES MYOTIS SODALIS (CHIROPTERA VESPERTILIONIDAE) Jeffrey Skibins, Dept. of Biology, IWU , Thomas Griffiths'" In 1929, Miller and Allen, (Bull. U.S.  Natl. Mus . ,  144: viii + 218 pp) named a new bat species, Myotis soda lis on the basis of examinations of museum specimens .  Since then, investigations have suggested that the population of Myotis sodalis has decreased dramatically. This reduction in number has been significant enough to warrant Federal Endangered Species status.  Alternatively, it is possible that Myotis sodalis never existed as a species. I believe that this taxon was incorrectly recognized and named. In order to test whether this is the case I will perform a computerized cluster analysis on skin and skull measurements obtained by Dr. Thomas Griffiths .  These results may show that Myotis sodalis is not a separate species and thus does not warrant Federal protection.  

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An Investigation of the Validity of the Bat Species \u3cem\u3eMyotis Sodalis\u3c/e\u3e (Chiroptera Vespertilionidae)

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