Rhinolophus hildebrandtii
W. C. H. Peters, 1878
Hildebrandt's Horseshoe Bat
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Chiroptera |
| Suborder | : Pteropodiformes |
| Superfamily | : Rhinolophoidea |
| Family | : Rhinolophidae |
| Genus | : Rhinolophus |
Species status
Authority citation
Peters, W.C.H. 1878. Über die von Hrn. J. M. Hildebrandt während seiner letzten ostafrikanischen Reise gesammelten Säugethiere und Amphibien. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1878:194-201.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36096830Original name as described
Rhinolophus Hildebrandtii
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1879.1.21.1, ZMB 5267, ZMB 5378, ZMB 5379
Type kind
syntypes
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/2b573099-725a-408f-96ef-50f05d335750Type locality
Ndi, Taita Hills, Kenya.
Biogeographic realm
Afrotropic
Country distribution
Kenya · Tanzania · Rwanda · Burundi · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Nigeria · South Sudan · Ethiopia
Taxonomy notes
may include R. cohenae, R. mabuensis, and R. smithersi as synonyms based on recent molecular data, although the species are tentatively retained here pending further research
Taxonomy notes citation
Taylor, P. J., Stoffberg, S., Monadjem, A., Schoeman, M. C., Bayliss, J., & Cotterill, F. P. (2012). Four new bat species (Rhinolophus hildebrandtii complex) reflect Plio-Pleistocene divergence of dwarfs and giants across an Afromontane archipelago. PLoS one, 7(9), e41744. · Demos, T. C., Webala, P. W., Goodman, S. M., Peterhans, J. C. K., Bartonjo, M., & Patterson, B. D. (2019). Molecular phylogenetics of the African horseshoe bats (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae): expanded geographic and taxonomic sampling of the Afrotropics. BMC evolutionary biology, 19(1), 1-14.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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