Arizona mammals

Arizona myotis in Arizona

Myotis occultus

Native to Arizona S3 Vulnerable in Arizona

Not listed as nonindigenous in Arizona by USGS NAS; native to its Arizona range.

IUCN Red List status

  1. LC
  2. NT
  3. VU
  4. EN
  5. CR
  6. EW
  7. EX

LC – Least Concern

Widespread and abundant; not at risk.

Arizona myotis in Arizona, by the numbers

Rare in Arizona 135th most recorded of 158 mammals logged in Arizona

67 occurrence records
2 with iNaturalist photos

Records from 2000–2026.

When to look for the Arizona myotis in Arizona

Most sightings fall in June.

67 Arizona occurrence records (iNaturalist and GBIF) by month of year, 2000–2026. Shows when the species is recorded, not a guarantee of presence.

Monthly Arizona records (table)
MonthRecords
January1
February0
March0
April0
May3
June29
July7
August20
September7
October0
November0
December0

Monthly arizona myotis occurrence records (iNaturalist and GBIF) in Arizona, 2000–2026.

Seasonality

Year-round in Arizona, with recorded sightings peaking in June, with a smaller rise in August.

Occurrence map

Where Arizona myotis has been recorded in Arizona

67 records mapped · zoom and drag to explore

67 Arizona records mapped

Notable places to look

Park, forest, or monumentiNaturalist records
Coconino National Forest 1

Protected places with the most arizona myotis sightings, from the USGS Protected Areas Database plus named mountain ranges, good spots to look, not a full breakdown, so they don't sum to the total.

Where it's recorded in Arizona

CountyRecords
Coconino County 21
Yavapai County 20
Apache County 9
Greenlee County 4
Gila County 4
Cochise County 3
Navajo County 3
Maricopa County 2
Pima County 1

The complete county distribution, spread across 9 Arizona counties. Every occurrence record falls in one county, so these sum to the total. Counties from GBIF and US Census boundaries.

Arizona myotis is a ponderosa- and mixed-conifer bat of the state’s higher mountain ranges, recorded here only a handful of times, in the bottom fifth of Arizona’s mammal record. Like most bats, it is caught far more often in acoustic surveys and mist nets than in a camera lens.

The scattered single-digit counts from May through September describe when biologists happened to be out with detectors, not a true seasonal pulse; a species this rarely logged doesn’t yet have enough data to support a confident seasonal read.

More mammals in Arizona in the atlas

Data & sources

The data and visualizations on this page draw on these open sources:

  • GBIFCC-BY 4.0occurrence records behind the range map, elevation, and record counts
  • iNaturalistCC0 / CC-BY / CC-BY-SAobservations, photos, and audio recordings
  • NatureServe ExplorerCC-BYthe state conservation rank
  • IUCN Red Listattributed factthe global conservation status
  • USGS NASpublic domainnative / introduced status
  • Natural Earthpublic domainthe relief basemap
  • USFSpublic domainnational-forest boundaries
  • USGS Protected Areas Databasepublic domainthe named parks, forests, and refuges behind "notable places to look"