Hipposideros galeritus

Cantor, 1846

Cantor's 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
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Cantor, T. 1846. Catalogue of Mammalia inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and islands. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 15:171-203.

Original name as described

Hipposideros galeritus

Other common names

Cantor's Roundleaf Bat · Cantor's Leaf-nosed Bat

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1879.11.21.85

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Pinang [= Penang]," Malaysia.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

Laos · Vietnam · Cambodia · Thailand · Malaysia · Indonesia · Brunei · Myanmar?

Taxonomy notes

previously included H. brachyotus

Taxonomy notes citation

Srinivasulu, B., Kusuminda, T., Srinivasulu, A., Ukuwela, K.D.B., Amarasinghe, C.J., Siriwardana, S., Kaur, H., Mannakkara, A., Soisook, P., Kamalakannan, M., Yapa, W.B. and Srinivasulu, C. 2025-02-25. Taxonomic revision of the South Asian allies of _Hipposideros galeritus_ Cantor, 1846. Zootaxa 5590(4):507-530.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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