Hipposideros edwardshilli

Flannery & D. J. Colgan, 1993

Hill's Leaf-nosed Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Chiroptera
Suborder : Pteropodiformes
Superfamily : Rhinolophoidea
Family : Hipposideridae
Genus : Hipposideros

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Flannery, T.F. and Colgan, D.J. 1993-03-19. A new species and two new subspecies of Hipposideros (Chiroptera) from Western Papua New Guinea. Records of the Australian Museum 45(1):43-57.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.45.1993.129

Original name as described

Hipposideros edwardshilli

Other common names

Hill's Roundleaf Bat

Type material

AM M.21752

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Imonda Station (3°20'S 141°10'E), Bewani Mountains, Papua New Guinea at an altitude of 240 m."

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Papua New Guinea

Taxonomy notes

has been included under Doryrhina based on suspected close relationship to Doryrhina cyclops, but this relationship has not been examined using molecular data at this point and it is retained under Hipposideros here for the time being

Taxonomy notes citation

Foley, N. M., Goodman, S. M., Whelan, C. V., Puechmaille, S. J., & Teeling, E. (2017). Towards navigating the Minotaur's labyrinth: cryptic diversity and taxonomic revision within the speciose genus Hipposideros (Hipposideridae). Acta Chiropterologica, 19(1), 1-18. · Wilson D.E. & Mittermeier R.A. 2019. Handbook of the mammals of the world. Vol. 9. Bats. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

IUCN Red List status

Vulnerable

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004569

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Hipposideros edwardshilli

Flannery & D. J. Colgan, 1993

Family

Hipposideridae

Root name

edwardshilli

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

AM M.21752

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

45

Authority publication

Records of the Australian Museum

Name usages

  1. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  2. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #10133) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #10133) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004569) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  5. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/10133/209537105) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Doryrhina edwardshilli

(D. E. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2019)

Family

Hipposideridae

Root name

edwardshilli

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

230

Authority publication

Barcelona

Name usages

Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:230) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)

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