Rhinolophus deckend Peters, 1868 . Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin for 1867, p. 705.

TYPE LOCALITY: Tanzania, " Zanzibar coast" (mainland opposite Zanzibar) .

DISTRIBUTION: Uganda; Kenya; Tanzania; Pemba; Zanzibar.

COMMENT: Treated as a subspecies of clivosus by Hayman and Hill, 1971, Part 2:23; but see Koopman, 1975, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 154:386.