Vespertilio 17: 129–156, 2014 ISSN 1213-6123 Distribution of bats (Chiroptera) in Montenegro Primož Presetnik1, Milan Paunović2, Branko karapandža3, Marina Đurović4, Čeda Ivanović5, Maša ždralević6, Petr BENDA7 & Ivana Budinski8 1 Centre for Cartography of Fauna and Flora, Ljubljana office, Klunova 3, SI–1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia;
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[email protected] 3 Wildlife Conservation Society “Mustela”, Njegoševa 51, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia;
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[email protected] 5 Natural History Museum of Montenegro, Trg Vojvode Bećir Bega Osmanagića 6, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro;
[email protected] 6 National Research Council, Institute of Biomembranes and Bioenergetics, Bari, Italy;
[email protected] 7 Department of Zoology, National Museum (Natural History), Václavské nám. 68, 115 79 Praha 1 & Department of Zoology, Charles University, Viničná 7, 128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic;
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[email protected] Abstract. The first detailed review of the distribution of bats in Montenegro is presented. Altogether 28 species were confirmed to occur in the country:Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (55 records), R. hippo- sideros (54), R. euryale (12), R. blasii (5), Myotis myotis (7), M. blythii (37), M. nattereri (12), M. emar- ginatus (12), M. mystacinus (12), M. alcathoe (1), M. brandtii (2), M. daubentonii (3), M. capaccinii (32), Vespertilio murinus (4), Eptesicus serotinus (7), Hypsugo savii (18), Pipistrellus pipistrellus (22), P.