Lesser woolly horseshoe bat

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Lesser woolly horseshoe bat
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Chiroptera
Family: Rhinolophidae
Genus: Rhinolophus
Species:
R. beddomei
Binomial name
Rhinolophus beddomei
Andersen, 1905
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The lesser woolly horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus beddomei), also called Beddome's horseshoe bat, is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae. It is found in India and Sri Lanka. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, caves, and urban areas.

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Taxonomy and etymology

It was described as a new species in 1905 by Danish mammalogist Knud Andersen. [2] The eponym for the species name "beddomei" is Colonel Richard Henry Beddome, a British officer and naturalist who spent a good deal of his career in India. [3] Beddome was the collector of the holotype for this species. The holotype was collected in the Wayanad district of India. [2] As Rhinolophus is quite speciose, it is divided into closely related "species groups." Andersen placed the lesser woolly horseshoe bat in the philippensis species group, [2] but Simmons includes it in the trifoliatus species group. [4] Some authors have considered it a subspecies of the woolly horseshoe bat; since 1992, it has usually been accorded full species status. [5]

Description

The bat's head and body length is 7 centimetres (2.8 in), with a forearm 6 centimetres (2.4 in) long and a wingspan of 33 centimetres (13 in). Females are larger than males. Pelage is rough-textured and woolly. Body completely dark grayish brown, upper side grizzled. Wing membrane blackish brown. The ears are prominent, well-fluted, and pointy and nose-leaf is complex with a distinctive shape.

Biology and ecology

It is nocturnal, using echolocation to navigate in the dark. It echolocates at frequencies of 31.0–38.3kHz; its frequencies of maximum energy are 38.5 and 38.7 kHz. Its call duration is 48.2–58.0 seconds. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Srinivasulu, B.; Srinivasulu, C. (2019). "Rhinolophus beddomei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019: e.T40023A22061859. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T40023A22061859.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Andersen, K. (1905). "XXVIII.—On the Bats of the Rhinolophus philippinensis Group, with Descriptions of Five new Species". Journal of Natural History. 16 (92): 243–257. doi:10.1080/03745480509443674.
  3. ↑ Beolens, B.; Watkins, M.; Grayson, M. (2009). The eponym dictionary of mammals . JHU Press. p.  34. ISBN   9780801895333.
  4. ↑ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.
  5. ↑ Topál, G.; Csorba, G. (1992). "The subspecific division of Rhinolophus luctus Temminck, 1835, and the taxonomic status of R. beddomei Andersen, 1905 (Mammalia, Chiroptera)" (PDF). Miscellanea Zoologica Hungarica. 7: 101–116.
  6. ↑ Raghuram, H.; Jain, M.; Balakrishnan, R. (2014). "Species and acoustic diversity of bats in a palaeotropical wet evergreen forest in southern India". Current Science: 631–641.
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