Rhinolophus sinicus
Andersen, 1905
Chinese Rufous 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
Andersen, K.C. 1905-10-07. On some bats of the genus Rhinolophus, with remarks on their mutual affinities, and descriptions of twenty-six new forms. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1905-II(1):75-145.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31207559Original name as described
Rhinolophus rouxi sinicus
Other common names
Chinese Horseshoe Bat · Little Nepalese Horseshoe Bat
Type material
BMNH:Mamm:1899.3.1.6
Type kind
holotype
Type specimen URI
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/ff45ede5-c2d5-4b42-a9db-e703e4a8611dType locality
"Chin Tah, Anhwei [= Anhui Province], Lower Yangtse [River]," China.
Biogeographic realm
Indomalaya · Palearctic
Country distribution
India · Nepal · Myanmar · China · Vietnam
Taxonomy notes
previously included R. septentrionalis
Taxonomy notes citation
Mao, X., Tsagkogeorga, G., Bailey, S. E., & Rossiter, S. J. (2017). Genomics of introgression in the Chinese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus sinicus) revealed by transcriptome sequencing. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 121(3), 698-710. · Mao, X., Tsagkogeorga, G., Thong, V. D., & Rossiter, S. J. (2019). Resolving evolutionary relationships among six closely related taxa of the horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus) with targeted resequencing data. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 139, 106551.
IUCN Red List status
Least Concern
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