Rhinolophus septentrionalis

Sanborn, 1939

Yunnan 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

Authority citation

Sanborn, C.C. 1939-09-19. Eight new bats of the genus Rhinolophus. Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological Series 24(5):37-43.

Original name as described

Rhinolophus thomasi septentrionalis

Type material

FMNH:Mamm:33291

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Nguluko, 27° 5' N., 100° 15' E., north of Likiang, Yunnan, China.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

China

Taxonomy notes

split from R. sinicus

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

Not Evaluated

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