Rhinolophus landeri Martin, 1837

Decher, Jan, Hoffmann, Anke, Schaer, Juliane, N Orris, Ryan W., Kadjo, Blaise, Astrin, Jonas, Monadjem, Ara & Hutterer, Rainer, 2015, Bat diversity in the Simandou Mountain Range of Guinea, with the description of a new white-winged vespertilionid, Acta Chiropterologica 17 (2), pp. 255-282 : 264

Rhinolophus landeri Martin, 1837

New material

ZFMK 2008.0282 +0283, ♀♀, W1, 3 March 2008 ; ZFMK 2009.0021 , ♂, PF, 9 December 2008 .

A total of four individuals of this common West African rhinolophid were captured, two over the creek in the W1 ravine, one at PF, and one in the WSV. One female caught at W1 on 3 March 2008 carried a 23 mm long embryo (crown-rump length). Small aggregations of this bat are most likely roosting together with other species in the cliffs, caves, and hollow trees found at the top of the W1 ravine and in the rocks on the west side of the hilltop at PF, which had already been partially clear-cut and mark- ed for bulldozing when we re-visited it in December 2008. One individual of this species was caught in a harp trap during the Pic de Fon RAP at the Banko forest site (Fahr and Ebigbo, 2004). This species roosts in caves, abandoned mines, and occasionally hollow trees or roofs ( Fahr, 1996; Happold, 2013 b). At Mount Cameroon R. landeri was found at elevations up to 1,250 m (Fedden and McLeod, 1986).

Conservation status

Least Concern. Population trend is unknown ( IUCN, 2015).