Homfray's horseshoe bat
Appearance
Homfray's horseshoe bat | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Rhinolophidae |
Genus: | Rhinolophus |
Species: | R. andamanensis
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Binomial name | |
Rhinolophus andamanensis (Dobson, 1872)
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Homfray's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus andamanensis) is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae. It is endemic to the Andaman Islands.
It is a medium-sized bat, with forearms of 46.7–56.6 mm. It was previously considered a subspecies of the intermediate horseshoe bat (R. affinis), from which it was separated based on morphometric, acoustic and molecular phylogeny criteria.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Vincenot, Christian; Srinivasulu, Chelmala; Srinivasulu, Aditya; Srinivasulu, Bhargavi; Jones, Gareth (2019). "Integrated approaches to identifying cryptic bat species in areas of high endemism: The case of Rhinolophus andamanensis in the Andaman Islands". PLOS ONE. 14 (10): e0213562. Bibcode:2019PLoSO..1413562S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0213562. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 6786537. PMID 31600196.