Rhinolophus mehelyi Matschie 1901

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Rhinolophidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 350-365 : 359

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scientific name	Rhinolophus mehelyi Matschie 1901
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Rhinolophus mehelyi Matschie 1901 View in CoL

Rhinolophus mehelyi Matschie 1901 View in CoL , Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin: 225.

Type Locality: Romania, Bucharest.

Vernacular Names: Mehely's Horseshoe Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Rhinolophus mehelyi subsp. mehelyi Matschie 1901

Subspecies Rhinolophus mehelyi subsp. tuneti Deleuil and Labbe 1955

Distribution: Portugal, Spain, France, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro, Transcaucasia; Morocco, Tunisa, Egypt, Algeria, and Libya; Mediterranean islands, Turkey, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, and Jordan; Afghanistan.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Vulnerable.

Discussion: euryale species group. Revised by DeBlase (1972); also see Harrison and Bates (1991), Paz (1995), Zagorodnyuk (1999), Horácek et al. (2000), and Gaisler (2001 c). Includes tuneti; see Cockrum (1976 b).

References

DeBlase, A. F. 1972. Rhinolophus euryale and R. mehelyi (Chiroptera, Rhinolophidae) in Egypt and southwest Asia. Israel Journal of Zoology, 21: 1 - 12.

Gaisler, J. 2001 c. Rhinolophus mehelyi Matchie, 1901 -- Mehely-Hufeisennase. Pp. 91 - 104, in: Handbuch der saugetiere Europas. Band 4: Fledertiere. Teil I: Chiroptera I, Rhinolophidae, Vespertilionidae 1 (J. Niethammer and F. Krapp, eds.). Aula Verlag, Wiebelsheim, 602 pp.

Harrison, D. L., and P. J. J. Bates. 1991. The mammals of Arabia, Second ed. Harrison Zoological Museum, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom, 354 pp.

Zagorodnyuk, I. V. 1999. Taxonomy, biogeography and abundance of the horseshoe bats in Eastern Europe. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 42: 407 - 421.