Rhinolophus hildebrandti

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• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,965 meters (0 to 6,447 feet).[1]

Ecology: Populations have been recorded from caves in both dry and moist savanna . The preferred habitat appears to be woodland savanna although Ansell and Ansell (1973) recorded the species in "bracken-briar" near the head of a stream in a montane area. The species roosts in caves, mines, unused buildings, warthog holes and hollow trees including as baobab and mopane (Pienaar et al. 1987).[2].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     2.2     Savanna - Moist   
  
•     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

In view of differences in echolocation frequencies between different populations of Rhinolophus hildebrandti, it is possible that this taxon represents a complex of species, and needs further taxonomic studies.[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

• African game trails, an account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist, by Theodore Roosevelt; with more than two hundred illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition, and from drawings by Philip R. Goodwin. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1910. url p. 538.
• African game trails: an account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. url p. 474.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 84.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 75 1933 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 49, p. 625.
• Observations on the biology of some Rhodesian bats: including a key to the Chiroptera of Rhodesia / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1975. url p. 18, p. 7.
• The mammals of Africa: country lists. Draft document IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre, UNEP, WWF url .
• The mammals of South Africa / by W.L. Sclater. .. London: R.H. Porter, 1900-01. url , p. 115.
• The natural history of South Africa. .. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1919-20. url .

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.
• Jacobs, D. 2008. Rhinolophus hildebrandti. 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:

• Field Museum, Mammal specimens
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate specimens
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database
• Museum of Texas Tech University
• , Mammal specimens
• Royal Ontario Museum, Mammal specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 104286
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-631433
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13810749
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 631433
• IUCN ID: 239560
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 9511

Footnotes

1. Mean = 649.300 meters (2,130.249 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,366.840 based on 57 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Jacobs, D. 2008. Rhinolophus hildebrandti. 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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