Rhinolophus mehelyi Matschie 1901

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Rhinolophidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 350-365 : 359

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scientific name	Rhinolophus mehelyi Matschie 1901
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Rhinolophus mehelyi Matschie 1901 , Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin: 225.

Type Locality: Romania, Bucharest.

Vernacular Names: Mehely's Horseshoe Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Rhinolophus mehelyi subsp. mehelyi Matschie 1901

Subspecies Rhinolophus mehelyi subsp. tuneti Deleuil and Labbe 1955

Distribution: Portugal, Spain, France, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro, Transcaucasia; Morocco, Tunisa, Egypt, Algeria, and Libya; Mediterranean islands, Turkey, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, and Jordan; Afghanistan.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Vulnerable.

Discussion: euryale species group. Revised by DeBlase (1972); also see Harrison and Bates (1991), Paz (1995), Zagorodnyuk (1999), Horácek et al. (2000), and Gaisler (2001 c). Includes tuneti; see Cockrum (1976 b).