Bats of the World

A Taxonomic and Geographic Database

Compiled and Edited by:
Nancy B. Simmons and Andrea L. Cirranello
American Museum of Natural History

Your search for Murina rubella resulted in 1 species-level match:

Murina Gray, 1842. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, 10: 258.

Vespertilio suillus Temminck, 1840

Murina rubella Thomas, 1914.
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8(13): 440.
Fujian Tube-nosed Bat

China, Fokien, Kuatun (= China, Fujian Province, Wuyishan City, Kuatun)

S China, N Laos, and Vietnam

CITES - Not Listed IUCN - Least Concern under Murina huttoni (2018).

Previously considered a subspecies of Murina huttonii, but apparently distinct; see Luo et al. (2025). Specimens of huttonii from N Thailand, N Myanmar, and peninsular Malaysia have not yet been genetically assessed.

References:

Luo, T., M.-L. Mao, C.-T. Lan, Z.-F. Zhao, Z.-L. Wang, J. Yu, J.-J. Wang, C.-R. Yan, N. Xiao, and J. Zhou. 2025. Four new tube-nosed bat species of the genus Murina (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) from Xizang Autonomous Region, China, based on morphological and molecular data. Zoosystematics and Evolution 101(3): 1023-1055. Read article.

Thomas, O. 1914. New Asiatic and Australasian bats, and a new bandicoot. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8, 13: 439-444. Read article.