Rhinolophus chiewkweeae Yoshiyuki and Lim, 2005

Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu & John-James Wilson, 2017, A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library, PLoS ONE 12 (7), pp. 1-65 : 30

Rhinolophus chiewkweeae Yoshiyuki and Lim, 2005

Rhinolophus chiewkweeae Yoshiyuki and Lim, 2005: 29 ; Gunung Ledang , Tangkak, Muar, Johor, MALAYSIA, 1276 m (Boo-Liat Lim, collector; NSMT-M 33472 ) [ 13].

Common English name: Chiewkwee’s Horseshoe Bat

Barcode Index Number: There are no DNA barcodes recorded under this name on BOLD.

Remarks: R. pearsonii is reported to occur in Peninsular Malaysia [ 9] although we could not find any precise locality reports. It is likely that the records of R. pearsonii from Peninsular Malaysia, if valid, may actually represent R. chiewkweeae [ 154]. However, our NJ analysis revealed that the DNA barcodes under these names (but not including Peninsular Malaysia specimens) were 12% divergent in COI mtDNA (see Fig 3 in [ 154]).

IUCN status: Not Evaluated

Recorded at: Melaka: Asahan Forest Reserve [ 13] ; Johor: Gunung Ledang and Labis Forest Reserve [ 13] ; Kedah: Lubok Semilan, Ulu Melaka in Pulau Langkawi and Weng Subcatchment Area in Ulu Muda Forest Reserve Forest Reserve [ 13] ; Perlis: Wang Kelian State Park [ 50] ;

Perak: Temenggor Lake [ 69]; Terengganu: Tasik Kenyir [ 69], Sungai Buweh [ 154].

R. chiewkweeae has been reported from lowland, hill and submontane dipterocarp forests, and an island [ 13, 154]. In Peninsular Malaysia, all reported individuals were caught in mature and secondary dipterocarp forests [ 154]. The low capture rate of R. chiewkweeae suggested that the population density of the species in Peninsular Malaysia is likely to be very low [ 50, 154]

Figures

Fig 3. Neighbour-joining tree showing all available DNA barcodes for species in families Emballonuridae, Megadermatidae, Molossidae and Nycteridae reported from Peninsular Malaysia. The percentage of pseudoreplicate trees (±70%) in which the DNA barcodes clustered together in the bootstrap test (500 pseudoreplicates) are shown above the branches. Abbreviation as follows: PM = Peninsular Malaysia, VN = Vietnam, BN = Borneo (including Sabah & Sarawak of East Malaysia, Brunei and Kalimantan Indonesia), TH = Thailand, LA = Laos, SM = Sumatera Indonesia,CH = China. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179555.g003