Rhinopoma hardwickii Gray 1831

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Rhinopomatidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 380-381 : 380

Rhinopoma hardwickii Gray 1831

Rhinopoma hardwickii Gray 1831 , Zool. Misc., Vol. 1: 37.

Type Locality: India, resticted to Bengal by Qumsiyeh et al. (1992).

Vernacular Names: Lesser Mouse-tailed Bat.

Synonyms: Rhinopoma brevicaudatum Gray 1831 ; Rhinopoma longicaudatum Fitzinger 1866 .

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Rhinopoma hardwickii subsp. hardwickii Gray 1831

Subspecies Rhinopoma hardwickii subsp. arabium Thomas 1913

Subspecies Rhinopoma hardwickii subsp. cystops Thomas 1903

Subspecies Rhinopoma hardwickii subsp. sondaicum Van Cakenberghe and De Vree 1994

Distribution: Morocco to Burma, south to Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Kenya; Socotra Isl ( Yemen).

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

Discussion: See Qumsiyeh and Jones (1986), Harrison and Bates (1991), and Kock et al. (2001). Does not include macinnesi ; see Van Cakenberghe and De Vree (1994). Sometimes spelled hardwickei (because the species was named after Major General Hardwicke), but the original spelling is hardwickii (see Kock et al., 2001). I follow Corbet and Hill (1992) and Kock et al. (2001) in using the original spelling.