Hipposideros srilankaensis
Kusuminda, B. Srinivasulu, Amarasinghe, A. Srinivasulu, C. Srinivasulu, & W. B. Yapa in B. Srinivasulu, Kusuminda, A. Srinivasulu, Ukuwela, Amarasinghe, Siriwardana, Kaur, Mannakkara, Soisook, Kamalakannan, W. B. Yapa, & C. Srinivasulu, 2025
Sri Lankan Round-leaf Bat
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Chiroptera |
| Suborder | : Pteropodiformes |
| Superfamily | : Rhinolophoidea |
| Family | : Hipposideridae |
| Genus | : Hipposideros |
Species status
Authority citation
Srinivasulu, B., Kusuminda, T., Srinivasulu, A., Ukuwela, K.D.B., Amarasinghe, C.J., Siriwardana, S., Kaur, H., Mannakkara, A., Soisook, P., Kamalakannan, M., Yapa, W.B. and Srinivasulu, C. 2025-02-25. Taxonomic revision of the South Asian allies of _Hipposideros galeritus_ Cantor, 1846. Zootaxa 5590(4):507-530.
Authority publication link
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5590.4.3Original name as described
Hipposideros srilankaensis
Other common names
Sri Lankan Leaf-nosed Bat
Type material
CNM 2023.08.01NH
Type kind
holotype
Type locality
"Makulella (Bandarawela), Badulla district, Uva Province, Sri Lanka."
Biogeographic realm
Indomalaya
Country distribution
Sri Lanka
Taxonomy notes
recently described
Taxonomy notes citation
Srinivasulu, B., Kusuminda, T., Srinivasulu, A., Ukuwela, K.D.B., Amarasinghe, C.J., Siriwardana, S., Kaur, H., Mannakkara, A., Soisook, P., Kamalakannan, M., Yapa, W.B. and Srinivasulu, C. 2025-02-25. Taxonomic revision of the South Asian allies of _Hipposideros galeritus_ Cantor, 1846. Zootaxa 5590(4):507-530.
IUCN Red List status
Not Evaluated
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