Rhinolophus blasii

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Ecology: In the Mediterranean region it typically forages in shrubland and woodland, although it may penetrate to desert habitat (Amr 2000). Summer roosts are situated in natural and artificial underground sites, with attics also being used in the northern part of the range . In winter, it hibernates in underground sites. This species is considered to be sedentary (Hutterer et al. 2005).[1].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     2.2     Savanna - Moist   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.8     Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation   
  
•     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   
  
•     8     Desert   
  
•     8.2     Desert - Temperate   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Peters. WILHELM C. H. Mittheilung über neue Amphibien (Amphibolurus, Lygosoma, Cyclodus, Masticophis, Crotaphopeltis) und Fische (Diagramma, Hapalogenys) des Kgl. Zoologischen Museums. Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, 1866: 86-96., 1866.

Last scrutiny: 08-Jun-2004

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 history of British mammals / London: Gurney and Jackson, 1910-[1921]. url .
• A history of British mammals, by Gerald E. H. Barrett-Hamilton. .. With twenty-seven full-page plates in colour, fifty-four in black and white, and upwards of two hundred and fifty smaller illustrations, drawn by Edward A. Wilson 1 1910 London: Gurney and Jackson, 1910-1921. url p. 226, fig. 23.
• A study of the mammals of Iran: resulting from the Street Expedition of 1962-63 [by] Douglas M. Lay. 54 1967 [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1967. url fig. 20 , fig. 29 , p. 105, p. 136, p. 138, p. 148, p. 263, p. 280, p. 87.
• An environmental profile of the Black Sea Coast WCMC url p. 99.
• Bats of Portugal: zoogeography and systematics / by Jorge M. Palmeirim. 1990 Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas. Museum of Natural History, 1990. url p. 40, p. 42, p. 47, figs. 6-7, page 5, fig. 8, page 6.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 83 1939 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 73.
• Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the British Museum. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1878. url .
• Catalogue of the mammals of Western Europe (Europe exclusive of Russia) in the collection of the British Museum London: printed by order of the Trustees, 1912. url .
• Catalogue of the mammals of western Europe (Europe exclusive of Russia) in the collection of the British Museum / by Gerrit S. Miller. London: BMNH, 1912. url p. 162.
• Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946 / by J.R. Ellerman and T.C.S. Morrison-Scott. London: BM(NH), 1966. url p. 120.
• Checklists for the CORINE Biotopes Programme and its application in the PHARE countries of Central and East Europe: including comparisons with relevant conventions and agreements on the conservation of European species and habitats EC url p. 97.
• Entomological news. [Philadelphia]American Entomological Society, 1925- url p. 240, p. 44.
• Nature. London, etc., Macmillan Journals Ltd., etc. url p. 119.
• Observations on the biology of some Rhodesian bats: including a key to the Chiroptera of Rhodesia / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1975. url p. 19.
• Population studies of myotis lucifugus (chiroptera: vespertilionidae) in Ontario / [Toronto]: Royal Ontario Museum, 1970. url p. 12.
• Some mammals of Yemen and their ectoparasites / Colin Campbell Sanborn and Harry Hoogstraal. 34 1953 Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1953. url p. 235.
• Spixiana. München: Zoologische Staatssammlung München, 1977- url p. 39.
• Streblidae from Yemen, with description of one subspecies of Ascodipteron (Diptera) 39 1958 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1958. url p. 186, p. 189.
• The bats of Iran: systematics, distribution, ecology / Anthony F. DeBlase. 4 1980 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1980. url fig. 63 , fig. 39 , fig. 152 , fig. 52 , fig. 180 , fig. 53 , fig. 51 , p. 112, p. 113, p. 116, p. 117, p. 120, p. 164, p. 258, p. 263, p. 267, p. 289, p. 292, p. 297, p. 313, p. 319, p. 342, p. 345, p. 52, p. 62, p. 81, p. 82, p. 83, p. 92, p. ix, p. xiii, p. xvii.
• The mammals of Africa: country lists. Draft document IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre, UNEP, WWF url .
• The mammals of the Caucasus; a history of the evolution of the fauna. (Mlekopitayushchie Kavkaza; istoriya formirovaniya fauny). [By] N. K. Vereskchagin. Chief editor: E. N. Pavlovskii. Editor of this volume: A. A. Strelkov. Translated from Russian [by A. Lerman and B. Rabinovich. Edited by M. Loeb] Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations [available from the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Va.], 1967. url p. 465, p. 815.
• Ticks (Ixodoidea) of Arabia, with special reference to the Yemen [by] Harry Hoogstraal and Makram N. Kaiser. 39 1959 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1959. url p. 313.
• Veröffentlichungen der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München. München: Die Staatssammlung, url p. 172, p. 86.

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 30, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 8 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Jacobs, D., Cotterill, F.P.D., Taylor, P.J., Aulagnier, S., Nagy, Z. & Karata?, A. 2008. Rhinolophus blasii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
• Jacobs, D., Cotterill, F.W. & Taylor, P. (GMA Africa Workshop) 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Jacobs, D., Cotterill, F.W. and Taylor, P. 2004. Rhinolophus blasii. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• 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.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:

• European Environment Agency: EUNIS
• Field Museum: Mammal specimens
• GBIF-Spain: Estacion Biologica Donana - CSIC, Mammal Collection
• Israel Nature and Parks Authority
• Museum of Texas Tech University (TTU): Mammal specimens
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Royal Ontario Museum: Mammal specimens
• University of Alaska Museum of the North: University of New Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology Mammal Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 104267
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-631414
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13810740
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 631414
• IUCN ID: 239539
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 9210

Footnotes

1. Jacobs, D., Cotterill, F.P.D., Taylor, P.J., Aulagnier, S., Nagy, Z. & Karata?, A. 2008. Rhinolophus blasii. 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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