Doryrhina cyclops ( Temminck, 1853 )

Decher, Jan, Norris, Ryan W., Abedi-Lartey, Michael, Oppong, James, Hutterer, Rainer, Weinbrenner, Martin, Koch, Martin, Podsiadlowski, Lars & Kilpatrick, C. William, 2021, A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation, Zoosystema 43 (14), pp. 253-281 : 270-271

Doryrhina cyclops ( Temminck, 1853)

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Phyllorrhina cyclops Temminck, 1853: 75 .

COMMON NAME. — Cyclops Roundleaf Bat.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Shiare • 1 ♂; SMF 92134; 24.VIII.2011; over a small creek in a side valley of the Sabu Creek valley of Shiare .

REMARK

The closest previous localities from the Volta Region are from Akaniem, Breniasi and Odomi Jongo in Ghana ( Grubb 1971; USNM) and from Bismarckburg, Ezimé and Odjolo in Togo ( Matschie 1893a; De Vree et al. 1969; Robbins 1980).We follow Foley et al. (2017) in the use of the name Doryrhina Peters, 1871 instead of Hipposideros Gray, 1831 . Doryrhina cyclops seems to be most often associated with rainforest, which was also recently shown at Liberian Mount Nimba ( Monadjem et al. 2016). This bat uses a perch-hunter foraging strategy and it requires large hollow trees for its day roosts. On the Accra Plains this species was found only in a traditionally protected sacred grove that was a remnant of high forest ( Decher 1997a). In Côte d’Ivoire 70% of localites were in the area of moist forests, 10% in forestsavanna mosaic and 20% in savanna formations ( Fahr 1996).

CONSERVATION STATUS. — Listed as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List, its dependence on large and hollow trees and preference for gallery forest ( Decher & Fahr 2005) make this a species of high conservation concern in the Ghana-Togo Highlands.

Figures

FIG. 12. — Cyclops Roundleaf Bat Doryrhina cyclops (Temminck, 1853) ♂ from Shiare (SMF 92134). Photo: M. Weinbrenner 2001.