Rhinolophus microglobosus

Csorba & P. D. Jenkins, 1998

Vietnamese Brown Horseshoe Bat

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild

Authority citation

Csorba, G. and Jenkins, P.D. 1998. First records and a new subspecies of _Rhinolophus stheno_ (Chiroptera, Rhinolophidae) from Vietnam. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Zoology)64(2):207-211.

Original name as described

Rhinolophus stheno microglobosus

Other common names

Indochinese Brown Horseshoe Bat · Indochinese Lesser Brown Horseshoe Bat

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1997.360

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

"Na Hang Nature Reserve, Tuyen Quang Province, Vietnam, between 22°16' and 22°31'N, 105°22' and 105°29'E, altitude 100–1082 m."

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya · Palearctic

Country distribution

Myanmar · China · Thailand · Laos · Cambodia · Vietnam

Taxonomy notes

split from R. stheno

Taxonomy notes citation

Soisook, P., Bumrungsri, S., Satasook, C., Thong, V. D., Bu, S. S. H., Harrison, D. L., & Bates, P. J. (2008). A taxonomic review of Rhinolophus stheno and R. malayanus (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from continental Southeast Asia: an evaluation of echolocation call frequency in discriminating between cryptic species. Acta Chiropterologica, 10(2), 221-242.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

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