Hipposideros swinhoii

(W. C. H. Peters in Swinhoe, 1871)

Swinhoe'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

Swinhoe, R. 1871-04. Catalogue of the mammals of China (south of the river Yangtsze) and of the island of Formosa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1870(3):615-653.

Original name as described

Phyllorhina swinhoii

Other common names

Pratt's Roundleaf Bat · Pratt's Leaf-nosed Bat · Swinhoe's Leaf-nosed Bat

Type material

ZMB 3996

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Amoy (= Xiamen), Fujian Province, China.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya · Palearctic

Country distribution

China · Vietnam · Myanmar?

Taxonomy notes

previously known under the name H. pratti, but the name swinhoii was shown to be the appropriate name for the species; the name swinhoii was previously considered a synonym of H. armiger; often spelt 'swinhoei', but the name was originally spelt 'swinhoii' and 'swinhoei' is an unjustified emendation (not appearing to be in prevailing use), so the spelling has been changed to match the original description

Taxonomy notes citation

Kruskop, S. V. (2014). Valid name for the Pratt's leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros pratti (Hipposideridae, Chiroptera, Mammalia). Russian Journal of Theriology. Русский териологический журнал, 13(2), 105-108.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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