Rhinopoma macinnesi

Hayman in St. Leger, 1937

MacInnes's Mouse-tailed Bat

Taxonomy

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

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

St. Leger, J. 1937-05-01. Mammals collected by the Lake Rudolf Rift Valley Expedition, 1934. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)19(113):524-531.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933708655296

Original name as described

Rhinopoma cystops macinnesi

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1936.11.4.45

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/f5ceb10b-2724-4487-afe3-179d1b69a580

Type locality

"Bat Island, near Central Island, Lake Rudolf (= Lake Turkana)," Kenya.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Eritrea · Ethiopia · Somalia · Kenya · Uganda

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004773

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.

Rhinopoma cystops macinnesi

Hayman in St. Leger, 1937

Family

Rhinopomatidae

Root name

macinnesi

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1936.11.4.45

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/f5ceb10b-2724-4487-afe3-179d1b69a580

Authority page

530

Authority publication

Annals and Magazine of Natural History

Rhinopoma macinnesi

Simmons, 2005

Family

Rhinopomatidae

Root name

macinnesi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority publication

Baltimore

Name usages

  1. Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
  2. Happold & Happold (2013:414) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
  3. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #19601) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  4. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #19601) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004773) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  6. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/19601/21997048) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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