Three new species of Murina from southern China (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae).

The article presents a study on three new species of tube-nosed bats (Murininae) from southern China. It found that these species have unique characteristics from the 19 species already known. It provides details of morphological differences of new species including the pelage color, size, and skull shape, of species collected from biodiversity survey of the Diding Headwater Forest Nature reserves from 2004-2007. It discusses the morphometric and genetic analyses of DNA barcodes of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene.