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Walston's Tube-nosed Bat

Murina walstoni Furey, Csorba & Son, 2011

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Open encyclopedia reference

Walston's tube-nosed bat (Murina walstoni) is a species in the vesper bat family Vespertilionidae, found in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia, specifically the Đắk Lắk Province of Vietnam and the Koh Kong and Ratanakiri provinces of Cambodia. This species was discovered in northeastern Cambodia in the Van Sai Protected Forest. They have tube-shaped nostrils (hence the name), which assist them with feeding. Walston's bat is one of 126 new species found in the Greater Mekong region in 2011. Two other tube-nosed bats were found in Southeast Asia in 2011: the Ashy-gray tube-nosed bat (Murina cineracea) and Beelzebub's tube-nosed bat (Murina beelzebub). All three species are small for bats, and M. walstoni is small for a Murina bat. Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM) and Fauna and Flora International (FFI) teams discovered these three new tube-nosed bats. All three of these bats live in tropical forests, making them endangered to deforestation. It is named after Joe Walston, an expert on bats of Vietnam and Cambodia.

Wikipedia contributors, Walston's tube-nosed bat; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T10:48:23.973143+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Murina walstoni Furey, Csorba & Son, 2011
Name authority
Furey, Csorba & Son, 2011
Common name
Walston's Tube-nosed Bat
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Chiroptera
Family
Vespertilionidae
Genus
Murina
Extinction status
Recorded extant

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumChordata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. infraphylumGnathostomata
  6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
  7. megaclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammalia Linnaeus, 1758
  9. subclassTheria Parker & Haswell, 1897
  10. infraclassEutheria Gill, 1872
  11. orderChiroptera Blumenbach, 1779
  12. suborderYangochiroptera Koopman, 1984
  13. superfamilyVespertilionoidea Gray, 1821
  14. familyVespertilionidae Gray, 1821
  15. subfamilyMurininae Miller, 1907
  16. genusMurina Gray, 1842
  17. speciesMurina walstoni Furey, Csorba & Son, 2011

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Murina. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

SpeciesClassificationSource status
Beelzebub Tube-nosed BatMurina beelzebub Son, Furey & Csorba, 2011VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Dusky Tube-nosed BatMurina fusca Sowerby, 1922VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Guillén's Tube-nosed batMurina guilleni Soisook, Karapan, Satasook, Thong, Khan, Maryanto, Csorba, Furey, Aul & Bates, 2013VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Hilgendorf's Tube-nosed BatMurina hilgendorfi (Peters, 1880)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Hutton's Tube-nosed BatMurina huttonii (Peters, 1872)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Taiwan Tube-nosed BatMurina puta Kishida, 1924VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Dun Tube-nosed BatMurina recondita Kuo, Fang, Csorba & Lee, 2009VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Ryukyu Tube-nosed BatMurina ryukyuana Maeda & Matsumura, 1998VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Shuipu Tube-nosed BatMurina shuipuensis Eger & Lim, 2011VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Gloomy Tube-nosed BatMurina tenebrosa Yoshiyuki, 1970VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Ussuri Tube-nosed BatMurina ussuriensis Ognev, 1913VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Ashy Tube-nosed BatMurina feae (Thomas, 1891)VespertilionidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant

Browse 407 records assigned to Vespertilionidae.

Documented distribution

Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.

Southern Asia

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

  1. Csorba, Gábor, Nguyen Truong Son, Ith Saveng, and Neil M. Furey. (2011). Revealing cryptic bat diversity: three new Murina and redescription of M. tubinaris from Southeast Asia. Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 92, No. 4. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:44N3R. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.