Rhinolophus ferrumequinum

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Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,469 meters (0 to 17,943 feet).[1]

Biome: Terrestrial

Ecology: The species will use caves all year, but particularly in northern Europe uses buildings for summer maternity colonies. Important foraging habitat and landscape features includes woodland, particularly early in the year, and permanent summer-grazed pasture, particularly late in the summer. The requirements for hibernation appear to be within limited confines of temperature and humidity, but vary with age, sex and condition. The mean temperatures in spring , at the end of hibernation, may influence the time of birth at the summer maternity colonies; late parturition in turn increases mortality rates of juveniles (Hutson et al. 2001).[2]

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 06-Aug-2004

Similar Species

Members of the genus Rhinolophus

There are approximately 182 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

R. acrotis · R. acrotis brachygnathus · R. acuminatus (Acuminate Horseshoe Bat) · R. adami (Adam's Horseshoe Bat) · R. aethiops · R. affinis (Intermediate Horseshoe Bat) · R. affinis himalayanis · R. affinis himalayanus · R. alcyone (Halcyon Horseshoe Bat) · R. anderseni (Andersen's Horseshoe Bat) · R. anderseni aequalis · R. andersoni · R. angolensis · R. arcuatus (Arcuate Horseshoe Bat) · R. armiger · R. augur zambesiensis · R. aurantius · R. beddomei (Lesser Woolly Horseshoe Bat) · R. beddomi sobrinus · R. bicolor · R. blasii (Blasius's Horseshoe Bat) · R. blasii blasii · R. blasii empusa · R. blythi · R. blythi calidus · R. bocharicus (Bokhara Horseshoe Bat) · R. borneensis (Bornean Horseshoe Bat) · R. borneensis spadix · R. caffer · R. canuti (Canut's Horseshoe Bat) · R. capensis (Cape Horseshoe Bat) · R. celebensis (Sulawesi Horseshoe Bat) · R. cervinus · R. chaseni · R. clivosus (Geoffroy's Horseshoe Bat) · R. clivosus acrotis · R. clivosus augur · R. clivosus bocharicus · R. clivosus zuluensis · R. coelophyllus (Croslet Horseshoe Bat) · R. cognatus (Andaman Horseshoe Bat) · R. cognatus famulus · R. convexus (Convex Horseshoe Bat) · R. cornutus (Little Japanese Horseshoe Bat) · R. cornutus cornutus (Little Japanese Horseshoe Bat) · R. cornutus miyakonis · R. cornutus orii · R. cornutus perditus · R. cornutus pumilus · R. cornutus szechwanus · R. creaghi (Creagh's Horseshoe Bat) · R. creaghi creaghi · R. darlingi (Darling's Horseshoe Bat) · R. deckeni · R. deckenii (Decken's Horseshoe Bat) · R. dehmi · R. delphinensis · R. denti (Dent's Horseshoe Bat) · R. denti knorri · R. dobsoni · R. eloquens (Eloquent Horseshoe Bat) · R. eloquens eloquens · R. empusa · R. euryale (Mediterranean Horseshoe Bat) · R. euryale barbarus · R. euryale euryale · R. euryale judaicus · R. euryotis (Broad-Eared Horseshoe Bat) · R. euryotis timidus · R. famulus · R. feae · R. ferrum-equinum · R. ferrum-equinum nippon · R. ferrumequinum (Greater Horseshoe Bat) · R. ferrumequinum ferrumequinum · R. ferrumequinum korai · R. ferrumequinum martinoi · R. ferrumequinum nippon · R. fumigatus (Rüppell's Horseshoe Bat) · R. gigas · R. grivensis · R. guineensis (Guinean Horseshoe Bat) · R. hildebrandti (Hildebrandt's Horseshoe Bat) · R. hildebrandtii · R. hilli (Horseshoe Bats) · R. hillorum (Hill's Horseshoe Bat) · R. hipposideros (Lesser Horseshoe Bat) · R. hipposideros escalerae · R. hipposideros hipposideros (Lesser Horseshoe Bat) · R. hipposideros midas · R. hipposideros minimus · R. hipposideros minutus · R. hipposideros vespa · R. imaizumii (Imaizumi's Horseshoe Bat) · R. inops (Philippine Forest Horseshoe Bat) · R. keyensis (Insular Horseshoe Bat) · R. klossi · R. landeri (Lander's Horseshoe Bat) · R. landeri guineensis · R. landeri lobatus

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Further Reading

• A study of the mammals of Iran: resulting from the Street Expedition of 1962-63 [by] Douglas M. Lay. [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1967. ENG url p. 136, p. 138, p. 74, p. 90.
• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, ENG url p. 11.
• Anglo-russkii biologicheskii slovar' / [avtory, I. N. Afanas'eva et al.; spetsial'nye nauch. redaktory, O. I. Chibisova i L. A. Koziar]. Moskva: Russkii iazyk, 1979. ENG url p. 63.
• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Bats of Portugal: zoogeography and systematics / by Jorge M. Palmeirim. Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas. Museum of Natural History, 1990. ENG url p. 42, p. 49, p. 5, p. 6, p. 7, p. 8, p. 9.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) ENG url p. 35.
• Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946 / by J.R. Ellerman and T.C.S. Morrison-Scott. London: BM(NH), 1951. ENG url p. 110, p. 111, p. 111, p. 112, p. 112.
• Eisentraut (1960a)
• Entomological news. [Philadelphia]American Entomological Society, 1925- ENG url p. 44, p. 45.
• General embryological information service. Utrecht, Hubrecht Laboratory. ENG url p. 60, p. 89.
• Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• Hutson, A.M., Mickleburgh, S.P. and Racey, P.A. (compilers). 2001. Microchiropteran Bats: Global Status Survey and Action Plan.. IUCN/SSC Chiroptera Specialist Group, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• Krevsající mouchy a strecci--Diptera: Celedi Ceratopogonidae, Simuliidae, Tabanidae, Hypodermatidae, Oestridae, Gasterophilidae, Hippoboscidae a Nycteribiidae / Milan Chvála, vedoucí autorského kolektivu [et al.]. Praha: Academia, Nakl. Ceskoslovenské akademie ved, 1980. CZE url p. 507.
• Siphonaptera collected during the 1965 Street Expedition to Afghanistan [by] Robert E. Lewis. [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1973. ENG url p. 63.
• The bats of Iran: systematics, distribution, ecology / Anthony F. DeBlase. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1980. ENG url p. 113, p. 161, p. 267, p. 284, p. 289, p. 292, p. 293, p. 300, p. 302, p. 313, p. 319, p. 331, p. 36, p. 361, p. 79, p. 80, p. 81, p. 84, p. 85, p. 90, p. 91, p. 92, p. 95, p. ix, p. xii, p. xiii, p. xvii.
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC, USA. xviii + 1207. ISBN: 1-56098-217-9.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Chiroptera Specialist Group 2000. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 12, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 11 providers.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 12, 2007:

• Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database
• Museum of Texas Tech University
• , Mammal specimens
• Royal Ontario Museum, Mammal specimens
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Natural England - Batsites inventory for Britain

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2476960
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-631430
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13851820
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 631430
• IUCN ID: 19517
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 9212

Footnotes

1. Mean = 81.710 meters (268.077 feet), Standard Deviation = 185.670 based on 3,306 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Chiroptera Specialist Group 2000. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]

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