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Results of a recent bat survey in Upper Myanmar including new records from the Kachin forests

Struebig, Matthew J.; Rossiter, Stephen J.; Bates, Paul J.J; Kingston, Tigga; Sai Sein Lin Oo; Aye Aye Nwe; Moe Moe Aung; Sein Sein Win; Khin Mya Mya (Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS, 2005)

Recent studies have shown the importance of Myanmar for the conservation of bat diversity. In March–April, 2003, twenty-five localities in Kachin and Shan States and Mandalay and Sagaing Divisions in Upper Myanmar were ...

A new species of Kerivoula (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Myanmar (Burma)

Struebig, Matthew J.; Bates, Paul J.J; Rossiter, Stephen J.; Kingston, Tigga; Sai Sein Lin Oo; Khin Mya Mya (Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS, 2004)

A new species of Kerivoula is described. Currently, it is known only from Namdee Forest in southern Kachin State, Myanmar. Externally, superficially similar to Kerivoula papillosa and with a dentition comparable to that of ...

A new species of Murina (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from sub-Himalayan forests of northern Myanmar

Soisook, Pipat; Win Naing Thaw; Myint Kyaw; Sai Sein Lin Oo; Pimsai, Awatsaya; Suarez-Rubio, Marcela; Renner, Swen C. (Zootaxa, 2017)

A new species of Murina of the suilla-type is described from the Hkakabo Razi Landscape, Kachin, Upper Myanmar, an area that is currently being nominated as a World Heritage Site. The new species is a small vespertilionid, ...

Nonbreeding Bird Communities Along an Urban–Rural Gradient of a Tropical City in Central Myanmar

Suarez-Rubio, Marcela; Thein Aung; Sai Sein Lin Oo; Nay Myo Shwe; Nay Myo Hlaing; Kyaw Myo Naing; Tun Oo; Mie Mie Sein; Renner, Swen C. (Tropical Conservation Science, 2016)

Urbanization is known to be a major driver in abundance and species richness of birds. However, how birds respond to urbanization in tropical cities is understudied in general and entirely absent from Myanmar. We conducted ...

First record of Bourret's Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus paradoxolophus (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from Myanmar with a review of the taxonomy, distribution and ecology of the species

Sai Sein Lin Oo; Du Sar No; Lucia Nang Seng; Ngwe Lwin; Pearch, Malcolm; Bates, Paul J.J (Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2017)

Two specimens of Bourret’s Horseshoe Bat, Rhinolophus paradoxolophus, were recently collected from near Kalaw, western Shan State, Myanmar. They represent the first country record of the species as well as a considerable ...

The rediscovery of the Common Water Monitor Lizard Varanus salvator (Squamata: Varanidae) in northern Myanmar

Sai Sein Lin Oo; Bates, Paul Jeremy James (Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2016)

On 09 June 2015, a Common Water Monitor Varanus salvator (Laurenti, 1768) was observed and photographed (Image 1) on the Campus of Banmaw University, Banmaw (Bhamo), Kachin State, Myanmar (24˚ 18' 15" N and 97˚ 15' 52" E). ...

Hill forest dweller: a new cryptic species of Rhinolophus in the ‘pusillus group’ (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from Thailand and Lao PDR

Soisook, Pipat; Karapan, Sunate; Srikrachang, Mattana; Dejtaradol, Ariya; Nualcharoen, Kwan; Bumrungsri, Sara; Sai Sein Lin Oo; Moe Moe Aung; Bates, Paul J.J; Harowt'yownyan, Margarita; M Buś, Magdalena; Bogdanowicz, Wiesław (Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS, 2016)

A new species of Rhinolophus in the pusillus group is described from Ratchaburi, Kamphaeng Phet and Loei Provinces where it was found in evergreen forest at elevations ranging from 550 to 1,320 m a.s.l. It is distinguished ...