What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Black Myotis been recorded?

Myotis nigricans occurrence evidence comes from 3,253 records in 20 countries and territories, from 1901 to 2025. Most records come from Bolivia.

MammaliaChiropteraVespertilionidaeMyotis

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

3,253 records across 20 countries and territories, 1901–2025.

Myotis nigricans · GBIF taxon key 2432448

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: September.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: September. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

19012025

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Black Myotis has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Black Myotis. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Bolivia 964
Panama 764
Peru 456
Venezuela 196
Costa Rica 168
Colombia 161
Paraguay 158
Mexico 109
Ecuador 71
Brazil 66
Guatemala 49
Guyana 43
Argentina 19
Nicaragua 10
Honduras 9
Suriname 4
French Guiana 2
El Salvador 2
Trinidad & Tobago 1
United States 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.