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

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

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.

Original 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 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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