Rhinolophus

Taxonavigation
[edit]Familia: Rhinolophidae
Genus: Rhinolophus
Species (119 + †1):
R. achilles –
R. acrotis –
R. acuminatus –
R. adami –
R. affinis –
R. alcyone –
R. alticolus –
R. andamanensis –
R. arcuatus –
R. axillaris –
R. beddomei –
R. belligerator –
R. blasii –
R. bocharicus –
R. borneensis –
R. canuti –
R. capensis –
R. celebensis –
R. cervenyi –
R. chaseni –
R. chiewkweeae –
R. chutamasae –
R. clivosus –
R. coelophyllus –
R. cognatus –
R. cohenae –
†R. contrarius –
R. convexus –
R. cornutus –
R. creaghi –
R. damarensis –
R. darlingi –
R. deckenii –
R. denti –
R. dobsoni –
R. eloquens –
R. episcopus –
R. euryale –
R. euryotis –
R. ferrumequinum –
R. foetidus –
R. formosae –
R. francisi –
R. fumigatus –
R. guineensis –
R. hildebrandtii –
R. hilli –
R. hillorum –
R. hipposideros –
R. hirsutus –
R. horaceki –
R. imaizumii –
R. inops –
R. keyensis –
R. kirghisorum –
R. landeri –
R. lepidus –
R. lobatus –
R. luctoides –
R. luctus –
R. mabuensis –
R. maclaudi –
R. macrotis –
R. madurensis –
R. maendeleo –
R. malayanus –
R. marshalli –
R. mcintyrei –
R. megaphyllus –
R. mehelyi –
R. microglobosus –
R. midas –
R. mitratus –
R. monoceros –
R. montanus –
R. morio –
R. mossambicus –
R. namuli –
R. nereis –
R. nippon –
R. osgoodi –
R. pearsonii –
R. perditus –
R. perniger –
R. philippinensis –
R. proconsulis –
R. pumilus –
R. pusillus –
R. refulgens –
R. rex –
R. robinsoni –
R. rouxii –
R. rufus –
R. ruwenzorii –
R. sakejiensis –
R. sedulus –
R. septentrionalis –
R. shameli –
R. shortridgei –
R. siamensis –
R. silvestris –
R. simulator –
R. sinicus –
R. smithersi –
R. stheno –
R. subbadius –
R. subrufus –
R. swinnyi –
R. tatar –
R. thailandensis –
R. thomasi –
R. trifoliatus –
R. virgo –
R. webalai –
R. willardi –
R. xinanzhongguoensis –
R. yonghoiseni –
R. yuaner –
R. yunanensis –
R. ziama
Name
[edit]Rhinolophus Lacépède, 1799: 15 [conserved name]
- Type species: Vespertilio ferrum-equinum Schreber, 1774, by subsequent designation by Palmer (1904: 606).
- Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 91 (1926: 2) and Direction 24 (1955: 222).
Synonymy
[edit]- Phyllorhina Leach, 1816: 5
- Type species: Vespertilio minutus Montagu, 1808, by monotypy.
- Rhinocrepis Gervais, 1836: 617
- Type species: Vespertilio ferrum-equinum Schreber, 1774, by monotypy.
- Aquias Gray, 1847: 15
- Type species: Rhinolophus luctus Temminck, 1834, by subsequent designation.
- Phyllotis Gray, 1866: 81 [nomen praeoccupatum pro Phyllotis Waterhouse, 1837]
- Type species: Rhinolophus philippinensis Waterhouse, 1843, by monotypy.
- Coelophyllus Peters, 1867: 427
- Type species: Rhinolophus coelophyllus Peters, 1867, by monotypy.
- Euryalus Matschie, 1901: 227
- Type species: Rhinolophus (Euryalus) mehelyi Matschie, 1901, by subsequent designation.
- Rhinophyllotis Troughton, 1941: 342
- Type species: Rhinolophus megaphyllus Gray, 1834, by original designation.
- Rhinomegalophus Bourret, 1951: 607
- Type species: Rhinomegalophus paradoxolophus Bourret, 1951, by monotypy.
- Indorhinolophus Guillén-Servent, Francis & Ricklefs, 2003: xviii [nomen nudum]
- Type species: Rhinolophus rouxii Temminck, 1835, by original designation.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Lacepède, B.G.E. 1799. Discours d'ouverture et de clôture du cours d'histoire naturelle. Donné dans le Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, l'an VII de la République, et Tableaux methodiques des mammifères et des oiseaux. Paris. MDZ. Discours pp. 1–55. Mammifères pp. 1–18. Oiseaux pp. 1–20. Reference page.
- Gray, J.E. 1847. Characters of Six new Genera of Bats not hitherto distinguished. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Part XV: 14–16. BHL Reference page.
- Gray J.E. 1866. A revision of the genera of Rhinolophidae, or horseshoe bats. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 81–83. BHL Reference page.
- Palmer, T.S. 1904. Index generum mammalium. A list of the genera and families of mammals. North American Fauna 23: 1–984. DOI: 10.3996/nafa.23.0001
; BHL Reference page. - International Commisision on Zoological Nomenclature. 1926. Opinion 91. Thirty-five generic names of Mammals placed on the Official List of Generic Names. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(4): 1–2. BHL Reference page.
- International Commisision on Zoological Nomenclature 1955. Direction 24. Completion of the entries relating to the names of certain genera in the class Mammalia made on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in the period up to the end of 1936. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1C: 219–246. BHL Reference page.
- Csorba, G., Ujhelyi, P. & Thomas, N. 2003. Horseshoe Bats of the World (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae). Alana Books: Shrewsbury. 160 pp. ISBN 0-9536049-1-8 Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Zhou, Z.-M., Guillén-Servent, A., Lim, B.K., Eger, J.L., Wang, Y.-X. & Jiang, X.-L. 2009. A New Species from Southwestern China in the Afro-Palearctic Lineage of the Horseshoe Bats (Rhinolophus). Journal of Mammalogy 90(1): 57–73. DOI: 10.1644/08-MAMM-A-048.1
Reference page. - Benda, P. & Vallo, P. 2012. New look on the geographical variation in Rhinolophus clivosus with description of a new horseshoe bat species from Cyrenaica, Libya. Vespertilio 16: 69–96. PDF Reference page.
- Kerbis Peterhans, J.C., Fahr, J., Huhndorf, M.H., Kaleme, P., Plumptre, A.J., Marks, B.D. & Kizungu, R. 2013. Bats (Chiroptera) from the Albertine Rift, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, with the description of two new species of the Rhinolophus maclaudi group. Bonn zoological bulletin 62(2): 186–202. PDF Reference page.
- Patrick, L.E., McCulloch, E.S. & Ruedas, L.A. 2013. Systematics and biogeography of the arcuate horseshoe bat species complex (Chiroptera, Rhinolophidae). Zoologica Scripta 42(6): 553–590. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12026
Reference page. - Soisook, P., Struebig, M.J., Noerfahmy, S., Bernard, H., Maryanto, I., Chen, S., Rossiter, S.J., Kuo, H., Deshpande, K., Bates, P.J.J., Sykes, D. & Portela Miguez, R. 2015. Description of a new species of the Rhinolophus trifoliatus-group (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from Southeast Asia. Acta Chiropterologica 17(1): 21–36. DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.1.002
Reference page. - Volleth, M., Loidl, J., Mayer, F., Yong, H.-S., Müller, S. & Heller, K.-G. 2015. Surprising genetic diversity in Rhinolophus luctus (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from Peninsular Malaysia: Description of a new species based on genetic and morphological characters. Acta Chiropterologica 17(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.1.001
Reference page. - Soisook, P., Karapan, S., Srikrachang, M., Dejtaradol, A., Nualcharoen, K., Bumrungsri, S., Oo, S.S.L., Aung, M.M., Bates, P.J.J., Harutyunyan, M., Buś, M.M. & Bogdanowicz, W. 2016. Hill forest dweller: A new cryptic species of Rhinolophus in the 'pusillus group' (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from Thailand and Lao PDR. Acta Chiropterologica 18(1): 117–139. DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.1.005
Reference page. - Volleth, M., Khan, F.A.A., Müller, S., Baker, R.J., Arenas-Viveros, D., Stevens, R.D., Trifonov, V., Liehr, T., Heller, K.-G. & Sotero-Caio, C.G. 2021. Cytogenetic investigations in Bornean Rhinolophoidea revealed cryptic diversity in Rhinolophus sedulus entailing classification of Peninsular Malaysia specimens as a new species. Acta Chiropterologica 23(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2021.23.1.001
Reference page. - Soisook, P. & Bates, P.J.J. 2022. Replacement name (nomen novum) for Rhinolophus monticolus Soisook et al., 2016. Mammalia 86(5): 539. DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2022-0012
Reference page. - Benda, P., Uvizl, M., Eiseb, S.J. & Avenant, N.L. 2024. On the systematic position of the horseshoe bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Lesotho. Mammalia 88(3): 239-258. DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0119
Reference page. - Benda, P., Ševčík, M., Horáček, I., Uvizl, M., Reiter, A. & Uhrin, M. 2024. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 17. New records of bats and their ectoparasites from Tajikistan with a review of these faunas of the country including a description of a new species of horseshoe bat. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 88: 1–213. Reference page.
- Luo, R.-S., Li, M.-C. & Liu, Z. 2025. Four new bat species from the Gaoligong Mountain and an updated catalogue of bats in China. Global Ecology and Conservation 62: e03698. DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03698
Reference page. - Patterson, B.D., Demos, T.C., Torrent, L., Grunwald, A.L., Montauban, C., Kerbis Peterhans, J.C., McDonough, M.M., Dick, C.W., Bartonjo, M., Schoeman, M.C., Ruedas, L.A. & Juste, J. 2024. Systematics of the Rhinolophus landeri complex, with evidence for 3 additional Afrotropical bat species. Journal of Mammalogy 106(1): 187–201. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyae085
Reference page.
Vernacular names
[edit]- Afrikaans: Saalneusvlermuise
- English: Horseshoe Bats
- español: Murciélagos de herradura
- 日本語: キクガシラコウモリ属
- slovenščina: podkovnjak