Rhinolophus marshalli Thonglongya, 1973

Zhang, Libiao, Jones, Gareth, Zhang, Jinshuo, Zhu, Guangjian & Parsons, Stuart, 2009, Recent surveys of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from China. I. Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae, Acta Chiropterologica 11 (1), pp. 71-88 : 78

Rhinolophus marshalli Thonglongya, 1973

Marshall’s horseshoe bat

FA — 38.9–47.1 mm, mass — 5.8–7.0 g. Three males and four females were netted in Yunnan Province on 8 September 2003, representing a new species record for China. Morphological and cranial measurements were described by Zhang L. B. et al. (2005). These bats called at 39.2–41.6 kHz (FA 43.8–47.1 mm). On 13 October 2007, three males (FA 44.0– 46.4 mm, mass 5.8–7.0 g, FMAXE 41.8–42.3 kHz) were also netted in Yunnan Province and on 21 June 2007, we netted 6 males and 5 females (FA — 38.9–44.1 mm, FMAX — 43.0–44.5 kHz) in Guangxi.

Ecological Notes

Our data represent new records for China in subtropical areas, always involving small numbers of individuals. The species is found in neighboring Vietnam (Hendichsen et al., 2001).