Rhinolophus fumigatus Rüppell 1842

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 : 356

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scientific name	Rhinolophus fumigatus Rüppell 1842
status

Treatment

Rhinolophus fumigatus Rüppell 1842 , Mus. Senckenberg., 3: 132.

Type Locality: Ethiopia, Shoa.

Vernacular Names: Ruppell's Horseshoe Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Rhinolophus fumigatus subsp. fumigatus Rüppell 1842

Subspecies Rhinolophus fumigatus subsp. abae J. A. Allen 1917

Subspecies Rhinolophus fumigatus subsp. aethiops Peters 1869

Subspecies Rhinolophus fumigatus subsp. diversus Sanborn 1939

Subspecies Rhinolophus fumigatus subsp. exsul K. Andersen 1905

Subspecies Rhinolophus fumigatus subsp. foxi Thomas 1913

Distribution: Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Dem. Rep. Congo, Nigeria, Niger, Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire, Togo, Benin, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia, South Africa.

Conservation: IUCN 2003 and IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: fumigatus species group. Does not include eloquens or perauritus, but does include aethiops ; see Koopman (1975). Subspecies boundaries are not well delimited. See Taylor (2000 a) for distribution map.