Rhinolophus deckenii Peters 1868

Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2), pp. 371-391 : 371-391

Rhinolophus deckenii Peters 1868

A single male specimen assigned to this species was collected from Chinizuia forest. It had a round- ed connecting process, similar to R. clivosus , but the 1st upper premolar was large and partly within the toothrow. Although the location of the premolar was atypical for R. deckenii (in which it is typically outside the toothrow), this character is variable in R. deckenii and occasionally the premolar is located partly within the toothrow ( Csorba et al., 2003). The skull had well developed zygomatic arches, sagittal and occipital crests and moderately inflated anterior medial narial inflations. Cranial measurements ( Table 2 ) fell within the range of values given for R. deckenii in Csorba et al. (2003) , although greatest skull length was identical to the minimum value of that recorded for R. deckenii . The baculum is characteristic of R. deckenii (as figured in Cotterill, 2002) in both length (3.8 mm cf. 3.9 mm in Cotterill, 2002) and shape ( Fig. 3 ). Peak echolocation frequency of a single male was recorded at 72 kHz (ANABAT, n = 1).

Field measurements: FA (adult male) 49.9 (1); Bm (adult male) 15.5 (1). Nose-leaf width was 8.9 for the single male.

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FIG. 3. Ventral (A) and lateral (B) views of the baculum of R. cf. deckenii (DM 8560), from Chinizuia, central Mozambique. One small square on the graph paper represents 1 mm