Rhinolophus lepidus Blyth 1844

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 : 357

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Rhinolophus lepidus Blyth 1844 View in CoL

Rhinolophus lepidus Blyth 1844 View in CoL , J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 13: 486.

Type Locality: India, Bengal, Calcutta (uncertain); see Das (1986).

Vernacular Names: Blyth's Horseshoe Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Rhinolophus lepidus subsp. lepidus Blyth 1844

Subspecies Rhinolophus lepidus subsp. cuneatus K. Andersen 1918

Subspecies Rhinolophus lepidus subsp. feae K. Andersen 1907

Subspecies Rhinolophus lepidus subsp. monticola K. Andersen 1905

Subspecies Rhinolophus lepidus subsp. refulgens K. Andersen 1905

Distribution: Afghanistan, Pakistan, N India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Szechwan and Yunnan ( China), Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra ( Indonesia).

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: pusillus species group. Includes feae , monticola , and refulgens ; see Hill and Yoshiyuki (1980) and Corbet and Hill (1992). Does not include osgoodi or shortridgei ; see Csorba et al. (2003), although also see Corbet and Hill (1992). Reviewed in part by Bates and Harrison (1997).

References

Andersen, K. 1907. On Pterocyon, Rousettus and Myonycteris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History., ser. 7, 19: 501 - 515.

Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1992. Mammals of the Indomalayan region. A systematic review. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 488 pp.

Csorba, G., P. Ujhelyi, and N. Thomas. 2003. Horseshoe bats of the world. Alana Books, Bishop's Castle, U. K., 160 pp.

Das, P. K. 1986. Studies on the taxonomy of bats obtained by the Silent Valley (Kerala, India) Expedition, 1980. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 8: 259 - 276.

Hill, J. E., and M. Yoshiyuki. 1980. A new species of Rhinolophus (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from Iriomote Island, Ryukyu Islands, with notes on the Asiatic members of the Rhinolophus pusillus group. Bulletin of the National Science Museum (Tokyo), ser. A (Zoology), 6: 179 - 189.