Rhinolophus arcuatus

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,661 meters (0 to 5,449 feet).[1]

Ecology: It occurs in agricultural lands , secondary forest , and primary forest (Heaney et al. 1991, Lepiten 1995, Rickart et al. 1993), including montane and mossy forest on Luzon (Heaney et al. 2004).
It roosts in limestone caves in small colonies. It forages for food by gleaning and aerial insectivory (Bonaccorso 1998).[2].

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     7     Caves and Subterranean Habitats (non-aquatic)   
  
•     7.1     Caves and Subterranean Habitats (non-aquatic) - Caves   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Rhinolophus anderseni

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 08-Jun-2004

This group is in need of a taxonomic review (Heaney et al. 1998, L. Heaney pers. comm. 2006), this is certainly a species complex (L. Heaney pers. comm. 2006). Rhinolophus anderseni is tentatively included in this species (Csorba et al. 2003). If other specimens are collected the Philippine populations might be divided from Rhinolophus arcuatus. In many Philippine islands two or even three morphological forms, often one associated with caves in agricultural areas and a larger highland morph associated with primary forest , are referred to Rhinolophus arcuatus, which may all represent separate species (Heaney et al. 1991, Ingle and Heaney 1992, Rickart et al. 1993, L. Heaney pers. comm. 2006). The forms differ in size on a given island, but overlap in size with each other on other islands (L. Heaney pers. comm. 2006). There are also subtle but consistent differences between populations on each Pleistocene island (Heaney et al. 1998).[2].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Rhinolophus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 85 species and subspecies in this genus:

R. acuminatus (Accuminate Horseshoe Bat) · R. adami (Adam's Horseshoe Bat) · R. affinis (Intermediate Horseshoe Bat) · R. alcyone (Halcyon Horseshoe Bat) · R. anderseni (Andersen's Horseshoe Bat) · R. arcuatus (Arcuate Horseshoe Bat) · R. beddomei (Beddome's Horseshoe Bat) · R. blasii (BLASIUS' HORSESHOE BAT) · R. bocharicus (Bokhara Horseshoe Bat) · R. borneensis (Bornean Horseshoe Bat) · R. canuti (Canut's Horseshoe Bat) · R. capensis (Cape Horseshoe Bat) · R. celebensis (Sulawesi Horseshoe Bat) · R. clivosus (Geoffroy's Horseshoe Bat) · R. coelophyllus (Croslet Horseshoe Bat) · R. cognatus (Andaman Horseshoe Bat) · R. convexus (Convex Horseshoe Bat) · R. cornutus (Little Japanese Horseshoe Bat) · R. cornutus cornutus (Little Japanese Horseshoe Bat) · R. creaghi (Creagh's Horseshoe Bat) · R. darlingi (Darling's Horseshoe Bat) · R. deckenii (Decken's Horseshoe Bat) · R. denti (Dent's Horseshoe Bat) · R. eloquens (Eloquent Horseshoe Bat) · R. euryale (Mediterranean Horseshoe Bat) · R. euryotis (New Guinea Horseshoe Bat) · R. ferrumequinum (Greater Horseshoe Bat) · R. formosae (Formosan Woolly Horseshoe Bat) · R. fumigatus (Rueppell's Horseshoe Bat) · R. guineensis (Guinean Horseshoe Bat) · R. hildebrandti (Hildebrandt's Horseshoe Bat) · R. hilli (Hill's Horseshoe Bat) · R. hillorum (Upland Horseshoe Bat) · R. hipposideros (Lesser Horseshoe Bat) · R. hipposideros hipposideros (Lesser Horseshoe Bat) · R. imaizumii (Imaizumi's Horseshoe Bat) · R. inops (Philippine Forest Horseshoe Bat) · R. keyensis (Kai Horseshoe Bat) · R. landeri (Lander's Horseshoe Bat) · R. lepidus (Blyth's Horseshoe Bat) · R. luctus (Great Woolly Horsehoe Bat) · R. maclaudi (Maclaud's Horseshoe Bat) · R. macrotis (Big-Eared Horseshoe Bat) · R. madurensis (Madura Horseshoe Bat) · R. maendeleo (Maendeleo Horseshoe Bat) · R. malayanus (North Malayan Horseshoe Bat) · R. marshalli (Marshall's Horseshoe Bat) · R. megaphyllus (Eastern Horseshoe Bat) · R. megaphyllus megaphyllus (Smaller Horseshoe Bat) · R. mehelyi (Mehely's Horseshoe Bat) · R. mehelyi mehelyi (Mehely's Horseshoe Bat) · R. mitratus (Mitred Horseshow Bat) · R. monoceros (Formosan Lesser Horseshoe Bat) · R. montanus (Timorese Horseshoe Bat) · R. nereis (Anamban Horseshoe Bat) · R. osgoodi (Osgood's Horseshoe Bat) · R. paradoxolophus (Bourret's Horseshoe Bat) · R. pearsoni (Pearson's Horseshoe Bat) · R. pearsonii (Horseshoe Bats) · R. philippinensis (Philippines Horseshoe Bat) · R. pusillus (Least Horseshoe Bat) · R. rex (King Horseshoe Bat) · R. robinsoni (Robinson's Horseshoe Bat) · R. rouxi (Rufous Horseshoe Bat) · R. rouxii (Horseshoe Bats) · R. rufus (Large Rufous Horseshoe Bat) · R. ruwenzorii (Ruwenzori Horseshoe Bat) · R. sakejiensis (Sakeji Horseshoe Bat) · R. sedulus (Lesser Wooly Horseshoe Bat) · R. shameli (Shamel's Horseshoe Bat) · R. shortridgei (Shortridge's Horseshoe Bat) · R. siamensis (Thai Horseshoe Bat) · R. silvestris (Forest Horseshoe Bat) · R. simplex (Lombok Horseshoe Bat) · R. simulator (Bushveld Horseshoe Bat) · R. sinicus (Chinese Horseshoe Bat) · R. stheno (Lesser Brown Horseshoe Bat) · R. subbadius (Little Nepalese Horseshoe Bat) · R. subrufus (Small Rufous Horseshoe Bat) · R. swinnyi (Swinny's Horseshoe Bat) · R. thomasi (Thomas's Horseshoe Bat) · R. trifoliatus (Trefoil Horseshoe Bat) · R. virgo (Yellow-Faced Horseshoe Bat) · R. yunanensis (Dobson's Horseshoe Bat) · R. ziama (Ziama Horseshoe Bat)

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Further Reading

• A key to the bats of the Philippine Islands / Nina R. Ingle, Lawrence R. Heaney. 69 1992 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1992. url fig. 13 , table 5 , p. 18, p. 24, p. 25.
• A synopsis of the mammalian fauna of the Philippine Islands / Lawrence R. Heaney. .. [et al.]. 88 1998 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1998. url p. 24.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 199, p. 202.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 86 1939 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 123, p. 50.
• Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the British Museum. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1878. url .
• Mammalian diversity on Mount Isarog: a threatened center of endemism on southern Luzon Island, Philippines / Lawrence R. Heaney. .. [et al.]. 95 1999 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1999. url table 7 , p. 29.
• Philippine batflies of the family Nycteribiidae (Diptera: Pupipara) 42 1963 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1963. url p. 174.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url , p. 11, p. 124, p. 271, p. 275, p. 276, p. 277, p. 284, p. 296, p. 407, p. 454, p. 458, p. 460, p. 464, p. 467.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 300, p. 309.
• The Mammals and birds of Camiguin Island, Philippines, a distinctive center of biodiversity / Lawrence R. Heaney, editor. 106 2006 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 2006. url p. 37.
• The Philippine journal of science. Manila: Bureau of Science url p. 14, p. 47, p. 52, p. 61.
• The distribution and ecology of mammals on Leyte, Biliran and Maripipi Islands, Philippines / Eric A. Rickart. .. [et al.]. 72 1993 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1993. url table 12 , table 11 , p. 37, p. 38.
• The mammals of Mt. Kitanglad Nature Park, Mindanao, Philippines / Lawrence R. Heaney. .. [et al.] 112 2006 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 2006. url p. 33.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 30, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Rosell-Ambal, G., Tabaranza, B. & Wright, D. 2008. Rhinolophus arcuatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 07, 2007:

• Royal Ontario Museum, Mammal specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 104266
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-631413
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13810739
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 631413
• IUCN ID: 239537
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 10726

Footnotes

1. Mean = -177.500 meters (-582.349 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,131.460 based on 90 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Rosell-Ambal, G., Tabaranza, B. & Wright, D. 2008. Rhinolophus arcuatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]

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