Cantor's roundleaf bat | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Chiroptera |
Family: | Hipposideridae |
Genus: | Hipposideros |
Species: | H. galeritus |
Binomial name | |
Hipposideros galeritus Cantor, 1846 | |
Cantor's Roundleaf Bat range |
Cantor's roundleaf bat (Hipposideros galeritus) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is found in Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.
It is named after Theodore Edward Cantor, a 19th-century Danish physician, zoologist, and botanist. [2]
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