Doryrhina camerunensis ( Eisentraut, 1956 )

Mongombe, Aaron Manga, Fils, Eric Moise Bakwo & Tamesse, Joseph Lebel, 2020, Annotated checklist of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Mount Cameroon, southwestern Cameroon, Zoosystema 42 (24), pp. 483-514 : 499

Doryrhina camerunensis ( Eisentraut, 1956)

Hipposideros camerunensis Eisentraut, 1956: 526 .

COMMON NAME. — English: Cameroon Leaf-nosed Bat. French: Phyllorine du Cameroun.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 14 specimens.

Mount Cameroon area • 4 ♀♀, 5 ♂♂, 5 specimens; Buea ; 4°09’00”N, 9°12’00”E; 1050 m; 29.IV.1954 - 10.IV.1958; Martin Eisentraut leg.; SMNS 5194 to 5917, 6580, 6581, 1853, 1854a, 1854b; ZFMK 1961.0641 to 0643, ZFMK 1963.0200; ZFMK 1979.0138 .

ORIGINAL DATA. — We did not capture any individual attributed to this species.

HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — This species is considered a forestdependent species that inhabits montane and lowland forest ( Happold 2013e as Hipposideros camerunensis ). Indeed, Eisentraut (1963) documented this species in the montane forest of Mount Cameroon at an altitude of 1400 m a.s.l. It has been recorded in two other localities in Africa: Shabunda in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and at the Kakamega Forest in western Kenya ( Mickleburgh et al. 2019). Being a forest-dependent species, it is probably threatened by ongoing forest degradation in its geographical range ( Mickleburgh et al. 2008b).

REMARK. — We use the generic name Doryrhina based on the revision by Foley et al. (2017).