Hipposideros alongensis

Bourret, 1942

Ha Long Round-leaf 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

Authority citation

Bourret R (1942a) Sur quelques petits mammifères du Tonkin et du Laos. Comptes Rendus du Conseil de Recherches Scientifiques de l'Indochine 2ème Semestre 2: 27–30.

Original name as described

Hipposideros larvatus alongensis

Other common names

Halong Bay Leaf-nosed Bat · Ha Long Roundleaf Bat · Ha Long Leaf-nosed Bat

Type material

MNHN-ZM-MO-1948-360c

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

Ha Long Bay, north-east Vietnam.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Vietnam

Taxonomy notes

split from H. turpis

Taxonomy notes citation

Thong, V. D., Puechmaille, S. J., Denzinger, A., Bates, P. J., Dietz, C., Csorba, G., ... & Schintzler, H. U. (2012). Systematics of the Hipposideros turpis complex and a description of a new subspecies from Vietnam. Mammal Review, 42(2), 166-192.

IUCN Red List status

Vulnerable

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