Rhinolophus swinnyi

Gough, 1908

Swinny's 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

Gough, L.H. 1908. On a new species of Rhinolophus from Pondoland. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 1(1):71-72.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50470826

Original name as described

Rhinolophus swinnyi

Other common names

Roberts's Horseshoe Bat · Gorongosa Horseshoe Bat · Least Horseshoe Bat

Type material

TM 1021

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Ngqeleni District, Pondoland, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Tanzania · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Zambia · Malawi · Mozambique · Zimbabwe · South Africa · Eswatini?

Taxonomy notes

previously included rhodesiae (now a synonym of R. simulator)

Taxonomy notes citation

Taylor, P. J., Macdonald, A., Goodman, S. M., Kearney, T., Cotterill, F. P., Stoffberg, S., ... & Richards, L. R. (2018). Integrative taxonomy resolves three new cryptic species of small southern African horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 184(4), 1249-1276.

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004751

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Rhinolophus swinnyi

Gough, 1908

Family

Rhinolophidae

Root name

swinnyi

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

TM 1021

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

71

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50470826

Authority publication

Annals of the Transvaal Museum

Name usages

  1. Roberts (1913:66, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50439524) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/17656)
  2. Corbet & Hill (1980:50) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  3. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:147) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  4. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  5. Monadjem, Schoeman, Reside, Pio, Stoffberg, Bayliss, Cotterill, Curran, Kopp & Taylor (2010:380) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/1775)
  6. Happold & Happold (2013:353) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #19572) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #19572) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  9. Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:284) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
  10. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004751) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  11. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/19572/21992092) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Rhinolophus swinnyi piriensis

Hewitt, 1913

Family

Rhinolophidae

Root name

piriensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

402

Authority publication

Records of the Albany Museum

Name usages

Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)

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