Hipposideros grandis G. M. Allen, 1934

Srinivasulu, Chelmala, Srinivasulu, Aditya, Srinivasulu, Bhargavi, Gopi, Asad, Dar, Tauseef Hamid, Bates, Paul J. J., Rossiter, Stephen J. & Jones, Gareth, 2017, Recent surveys of bats from the Andaman Islands, India: diversity, distribution, and echolocation characteristics, Acta Chiropterologica 19 (2), pp. 419-437 : 430

9. Hipposideros grandis G. M. Allen, 1934

Grand Roundleaf Bat

New records

Little Andaman Island: Hut Bay, V.K. Pur, Kalapather, Patak Tikri and Sundarpur.

Previous records Little Andaman Island: no exact location (HZM).

Comments

Ten individuals were captured out of which four specimens were collected. The external and craniodental measurements of the voucher specimens match with that of H. grandis . Earlier this population was assigned to H. larvatus by Aul et al. (2014). We follow Kruskop (2015) in delineating the ranges of H. grandis and H. larvatus , with the former occurring in India, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, and the latter in Java, Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra. The bacular morphology of these two taxa varies significantly, and shows a greater degree of plasticity in many isolated insular populations ( Kruskop, 2015). The baculum structure of the Andaman specimens also varies from that of H. grandis from Vietnam ( Kruskop, 2015), thus prompting us to list them as H. cf. grandis . A study aimed at resolving the taxonomic status of H. cf. grandis from the Andaman Islands is under preparation.