NATURAL HISTORY · CATALOGUE RECORD
Ashy Tube-nosed Bat
Murina feae (Thomas, 1891)
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
Fea's tube-nosed bat (Murina feae), also known as the ashy tube-nosed bat, is a species in the vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae, found in southeastern Asia (including Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam) and southern China. They have tube-shaped nostrils (hence the name) which assist them with their feeding. It is named after Italian naturalist Leonardo Fea. Originally described by Oldfield Thomas in 1891, it was later synonymized with the little tube-nosed bat (M. aurata). In 2011, populations of Scully's tube-nosed bat (M. tubinaris) from Southeast Asia were described as a new species, the ashy tube-nosed bat (M. cineracea). The ashy-gray bat was one of 126 new species found in the Greater Mekong region during 2011, discovered by a team from the Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM) and Fauna and Flora International (FFI). There were two other tube-nosed bats found in Southeast Asia in 2011: Beelzebub's tube-nosed bat (M. beelzebub) and Walston's tube-nosed bat (M. walstoni). However, further analysis found that populations of M. cineracea belong to Thomas's M.
Wikipedia contributors, Fea'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 2026-10-05T08:16:14.810114+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Murina feae (Thomas, 1891)
- Name authority
- (Thomas, 1891)
- Common name
- Ashy 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.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classMammalia Linnaeus, 1758
- subclassTheria Parker & Haswell, 1897
- infraclassEutheria Gill, 1872
- orderChiroptera Blumenbach, 1779
- suborderYangochiroptera Koopman, 1984
- superfamilyVespertilionoidea Gray, 1821
- familyVespertilionidae Gray, 1821
- subfamilyMurininae Miller, 1907
- genusMurina Gray, 1842
- speciesMurina feae (Thomas, 1891)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Murina. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Beelzebub Tube-nosed BatMurina beelzebub Son, Furey & Csorba, 2011 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dusky Tube-nosed BatMurina fusca Sowerby, 1922 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Guillén's Tube-nosed batMurina guilleni Soisook, Karapan, Satasook, Thong, Khan, Maryanto, Csorba, Furey, Aul & Bates, 2013 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hilgendorf's Tube-nosed BatMurina hilgendorfi (Peters, 1880) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hutton's Tube-nosed BatMurina huttonii (Peters, 1872) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Taiwan Tube-nosed BatMurina puta Kishida, 1924 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dun Tube-nosed BatMurina recondita Kuo, Fang, Csorba & Lee, 2009 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ryukyu Tube-nosed BatMurina ryukyuana Maeda & Matsumura, 1998 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Shuipu Tube-nosed BatMurina shuipuensis Eger & Lim, 2011 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gloomy Tube-nosed BatMurina tenebrosa Yoshiyuki, 1970 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ussuri Tube-nosed BatMurina ussuriensis Ognev, 1913 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lorelia's Tube-nosed BatMurina lorelieae Eger & Lim, 2011 | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Murina cineracea Csorba & Furey, 2011 Csorba & Furey, 2011 | synonym |
| Harpiocephalus feae Thomas, 1891 Thomas, 1891 | synonym |
Documented distribution
Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.
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.
- https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=947253 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:6RQN7. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.