Phyllorhina ruber Noack, 1893: 586 A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation Decher, Jan Norris, Ryan W. Abedi-Lartey, Michael Oppong, James Hutterer, Rainer Weinbrenner, Martin Koch, Martin Podsiadlowski, Lars Kilpatrick, C. William Zoosystema 2021 2021-05-20 43 14 253 281 3M388 (Noack, 1893) Noack 1893 [932,1336,470,497] Mammalia Hipposideridae Hipposideros Animalia Chiroptera 19 270 Chordata species ruber  ( Fig. 11)      Phyllorhina ruber Noack, 1893: 586.  COMMON NAME. — Noack’s Roundleaf Bat.  MATERIAL EXAMINED. —  Apesokubi• 1 ♂; SMF92132•  1 ♀; SMF89671.  Agumatsa (Wli Waterfall)• 1 ♂; SMF89672•  2 ♀; ZTNHC 951, SMF92131.  Shiare Schoolyard• 1 ♂; SMF92133.  REMARK Previous specimens from Ghana-Togo Highlands were from Breniasi, Worawora and Jasikan (AMNH; BMNH; Grubb 1971) and from Ahoué-houé, Agou, Aledjo, Fazao, Misahohé and Palimé in Togo( De Vree et al.1969, 1970; Robbins 1980). We tentatively label these bats  Hipposideroscf. ruberas at least three different lineages of bats affiliated with  H. ruber sensustrictufrom East Africa occur in Ghana, lineages B1, and D2 ( Vallo et al.2008, 2011), or what Monadjem et al.(2013)called lineage E2, or possibly lineage B1 also reaching into the DahomeyGap ( Benin) since our specimens are all from east of the Volta River. The distribution of specimens from West Africa weakens the assumption that H.cf  ruberis a forest species.. In Côte d’Ivoire Fahr (1996)made 70 captures of  H.cf. ruber, 69.2% of which were in the moist forest zone, 15.4% in forest savanna mosaic and 15.4% in savanna formations.  CONSERVATION STATUS. — Listed as “Least Concern” on the IUCN Red List,  Hipposideroscf. ruberappears to be still relatively common as our findings from three localities indicate. 3117087321 SMF 92132 [1075,1387,655,682] SMF 19 270 1 1 3117087307 SMF 89671 SMF 19 270 1 1 3117087365 SMF 89671 [944,1390,681,708] SMF 19 270 1 1 1 3117087306 SMF 92131 SMF 19 270 ZTNHC 951 2 2 3117087373 SMF 92131 [1087,1452,707,735] SMF 19 270 ZTNHC 951 2 2 1