Hipposideros pomona Andersen, 1918

Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu & John-James Wilson, 2017, A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library, PLoS ONE 12 (7), pp. 1-65 : 27

Hipposideros pomona Andersen, 1918

Hipposideros pomona Andersen, 1918: 380 , 381; Haleri, North Coorg, INDIA (A few miles north of Mercara, Coorg District , Karnataka) (G. C. Shortridge; BM (NH) 1918.8.3.4) [ 117] .

Hipposideros pomona gentilis [ 118].

Common English name: Large-eared Roundleaf Bat

Barcode Index Number: DNA barcodes recorded as H. pomona are associated with eight BINs, BOLD: AAA 4932, BOLD: AAA 4933, BOLD: AAA 4934, BOLD: AAA 4935, BOLD: AAA 4936, BOLD: AAA 4937, BOLD: AAA 4938 and BOLD: AAA 4939, but there are no DNA barcodes from Peninsular Malaysia (S3 Fig).

Remarks: Andersen [ 117] first separated H. pomona and H. gentilis on the basis of the noseleaf of H. pomona sensu stricto being broader than the noseleaf of H. gentilis . Similarly, Corbet and Hill [ 9] examined ethanol-preserved specimens and commented that H. pomona sensu stricto lacked of lateral supplementary leaflets. Likewise, Douangboubpha et al. [ 17] suggested that H. pomona sensu stricto [ 9] may represents at least two species: H. pomona sensu stricto (restricted to Peninsular India) and H. gentilis (distributed from north-east India into Southeast Asia). DNA sequences of H. pomono sensu lato from two mitochondrial genes: ND2 and RAG1 fell into two distinct clades in a phylogenetic tree (see Fig 4 in [ 125]): (i) H. pomona , H. rotalis and H. khaokhouayensis from Laos, and (ii) H. pomona from Laos, China, Myanmar and Peninsular Malaysia. Specimens of H. pomona from both groups are morphologically similar [ 125]. Three subspecies of H. pomona have been reported from China: H. p. sinesis (Min- Guang coastal region), H. p. gentilis (South Yunnan region) and an undescribed subspecies (Hainan Island), showing 6.0–8.5% divergences in cytochrome b mtDNA and 5.2–8.0% divergences in COI mtDNA [ 144]. Due to the lack of DNA barcodes from Peninsular Malaysia and unresolved taxonomy across the whole Southeast Asia region, we tentatively retained the name H. pomona in this checklist pending further research.

IUCN status: Least Concern

Recorded at: Perlis: Bukit Jerneh Cave and Tumang Lembing Cave [ 30], Bukit Lagi [ 145]. H. pomona is a cave dweller and has been recorded from various forest types and disturbed areas [ 14].

Figures

Fig 4. Neighbour-joining tree showing all available DNA barcodes for species in family Hipposideridae reported from Peninsular Malaysia. The percentage of pseudoreplicate trees (±70%) in which the DNA barcodes clustered together in the bootstrap test (500 pseudoreplicates) are shown above the branches. Abbreviation as follows: PM = Peninsular Malaysia,VN = Vietnam, BN = Borneo (including Sabah & Sarawak of East Malaysia, Brunei and Kalimantan Indonesia), TH = Thailand, LA = Laos, SM = Sumatera Indonesia, CH = China, CM = Cambodia. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179555.g004