Hipposideros ater Templeton 1848

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Hipposideridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 365-379 : 367

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scientific name	Hipposideros ater Templeton 1848
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Hipposideros ater Templeton 1848 View in CoL

Hipposideros ater Templeton 1848 View in CoL , J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 17: 252.

Type Locality: Sri Lanka, Western Prov., Colombo.

Vernacular Names: Dusky Leaf-nosed Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Hipposideros ater subsp. ater Templeton 1848

Subspecies Hipposideros ater subsp. amboinensis Peters 1871

Subspecies Hipposideros ater subsp. antricola Peters 1861

Subspecies Hipposideros ater subsp. aruensis Gray 1858

Subspecies Hipposideros ater subsp. gilberti Johnson 1959

Subspecies Hipposideros ater subsp. nicobarulae Miller 1902

Subspecies Hipposideros ater subsp. saevus K. Andersen 1918

Distribution: Sri Lanka; India to W Malaysia, through Philippines, Indonesia, and New Guinea to N Queensland, N Northern Territory, and N Western Australia ( Australia).

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: bicolor species group. Formerly included in bicolor , but see Hill (1963 b). Does not include wrighti (here considered a subspecies of cineraceus ); see Hill and Francis (1984). Reviewed in part by Bates and Harrison (1997); also see Flannery (1995 a, b) and Bonaccorso (1998).