Hipposideros lamottei

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• Notes

Overview

Critically Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Ecology: The natural history of this species is still quite poorly known. It has only been recorded with certainty from two localities on Mount Nimba, one in lowland tropical moist forest , and a second in afromontane savanna . It has been collected roosting within a natural cave (Grotte de Blandé) and a small, abandoned mining tunnel (Pierré Richaud). It is not known with certainty if the species mainly, or exclusively, roosts in caves and similar habitats (J. Fahr pers. comm. ). (Ref. 277701).

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.7     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
  
•     7     Caves and Subterranean Habitats (non-aquatic)   
  
•     7.1     Caves and Subterranean Habitats (non-aquatic) - Caves   
  
•     7.2     Caves and Subterranean Habitats (non-aquatic) - Other Subterranean Habitats   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 08-Jun-2004

The distinction from H. ruber is not entirely clear (Koopman 1993, Koopman et al. 1995, Simmons 2005).[1].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Hipposideros

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 71 species and subspecies in this genus:

H. abae (Aba Roundleaf Bat) · H. armiger (Great Himalayan Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. ater (Dusky Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. beatus (Benito Roundleaf Bat) · H. bicolor (Bicolored Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. boeadii (Boeadis Roundleaf Bat) · H. breviceps (Short-Headed Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. caffer (Sundevall's Roundleaf Bat) · H. caffer caffer (Sundevall's Roundleaf Bat) · H. calcaratus (Spurred Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. camerunensis (Greater Roundleaf Bat) · H. cervinus (Fawn-Colored Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. cineraceus (Least Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. commersoni (Commerson's Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. commersoni commersoni (Commerson's Roundleaf Bat) · H. coronatus (Large Mindanao Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. corynophyllus (Telefomin Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. coxi (Cox's Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. crumeniferus (Timor Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. curtus (Short-Tailed Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. cyclops (Cyclops Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. demissus (Makira Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. diadema (Diadem Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. dinops (Fierce Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. doriae (Bornean Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. durgadasi (Durga Das's Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. dyacorum (Dayak Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. edwardshilli (Hill's Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. fuliginosus (Sooty Roundleaf Bat) · H. fulvus (Fulvus Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. galeritus (Cantor's Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. gigas (Giant Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. grandis (Grand Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. halophyllus (Thailand Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. hypophyllus (Kolar Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. inexpectatus (Crested Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. inornatus (Arnhem Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. jonesi (Jones' Roundleaf Bat) · H. khaokhouayensis (Phou Khao Khouay Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. lamottei (Lamotte's Roundleaf Bat) · H. lankadiva (Indian Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. larvatus (Horsfield's Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. lekaguli (Large Asian Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. lylei (Shield-Faced Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. macrobullatus (Big-Eared Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. madurae (Maduran Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. maggietaylorae (Maggie Taylor's Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. marisae (Aellen's Roundleaf Bat) · H. megalotis (Ethiopian Large-Eard Roundleaf Bat) · H. muscinus (Fly River Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. nequam (Malayan Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. obscurus (Philippine Forest Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. orbiculus (Orbiculus Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. papua (Biak Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. pelingensis (Peleng Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. pomona (Andersen's Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. pratti (Pratt's Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. pygmaeus (Philippine Pygmy Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. ridleyi (Singapore Roundleaf Horseshoe Bat) · H. rotalis (Laotian Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. ruber (Noack's Roundleaf Bat) · H. sabanus (Least Roundleaf Bat) · H. schistaceus (Split Roundleaf Bat) · H. scutinares (Shield-Nosed Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. semoni (Semon's Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. sorenseni (Sorensen's Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. speoris (Schneider's Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. stenotis (Northern Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. sumbae (Sumban Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. turpis (Lesser Leaf-Nosed Bat) · H. wollastoni (Wollaston's Leaf-Nosed Bat)

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Further Reading

• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Brosset, A. 1985. Chiroptères d'altitude du Mount Nimba (Guinée). Description d'une espèce nouvelle, Hipposideros lamottei. Mammalia 48(4): 545-555.
• Fahr, J. and Ebigbo, N. M. 2003. A conservation assessment of the bats of the Simandou Range, Guinea, with the first record of Myotis welwitschii (Gray, 1866) from West Africa. Acta Chiropterologica 5(1): 125-141.
• Grubb, P., Jones, T. S., Davies, A. G., Edberg, E., Starin, E. D. and Hill, J. E. 1998. Mammals of Ghana, Sierra Leone and The Gambia. Trendrine Press, Zennor, St Ives, Cornwall, UK.
• Koopman, K. F. 1989. Systematic notes on Liberian bats. American Museum Novitates 2946: 1-11.
• Koopman, K. F. 1993. Order Chiroptera. In: D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder (eds), Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference, pp. 137?241. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., USA.
• Koopman, K. F., Kofrin, C. P. and Chapman, A. 1995. The bats of Liberia: Systematics, ecology and distribution. American Museum Novitates 3148: 1-24.
• Simmons, N. B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. In: D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder (eds), Mammal Species of the World, pp. 312-529. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• 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.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 31, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Mickleburgh, S., Hutson, A., Bergmans, W. and Fahr, J. 2004. Hipposideros lamottei. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Mickleburgh, S., Hutson, A.M., Bergmans, W. & Fahr, J. 2008. Hipposideros lamottei. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 104369
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-631509
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 631509
• IUCN ID: 214263
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3595

Footnotes

1. Mickleburgh, S., Hutson, A.M., Bergmans, W. & Fahr, J. 2008. Hipposideros lamottei. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]

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