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The First Record of the Greater Noctule Bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus) in the Southern Urals

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The presence of the greater noctule bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus), the largest and least studied species of bat in the western Palaearctic, was revealed for the first time in the southern Urals. In June–August 2018, three young females of N. lasiopterus were captured on the banks of the Nugush Reservoir between the Belaya and Nugush rivers, Meleuzovskii district, Bashkortostan. The nearest known locality of the species lies 300 km to the west, at Obshchiy Syrt Hill, Buzuluksky Bor. The present record of the greater noctule allows for its eastern range limit to be clarified, also indicating the reproduction of this species in the southern Urals.

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The authors are grateful to the Deputy Director for Research of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Bashkiria National Park L.A. Sultangareeva for her assistance in conducting research in the protected areas.

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This work was carried out within the framework of a State Assignment on the planned theme of the South Ural Scientific Centre Mineralogy and Environmental Geology of the, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, project no. AAAA-A19-119101490003-1.

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Snit’ko, V.P., Snit’ko, L.V. The First Record of the Greater Noctule Bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus) in the Southern Urals. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 48, 1104–1106 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359021070293

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