RHINOLOPHIDAE, Gray, 1825

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 : 73

RHINOLOPHIDAE

During our surveys, 12 species of horseshoe bats were captured (for capture sites, measurements and status, see Table 1 ; for representative echolocation calls, see Fig. 2 ; see also Appendix), of which two represent new records for China: R. marshalli and R. stheno . We also captured bats that fit descriptions of R. siamensis , recognised as a distinct species in Smith and Xie (2008). Among these 12 species, R. ferrumequinum and R. pusillus are common and widespread in China.

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FIG. 2. Representative echolocation calls of bats in the family Rhinolophidae captured from China during our surveys (except Rhinolophus stheno for which sound files were unavailable). See text for data on intraspecific variation. Recordings are from time expanded sequences of handheld bats with FFT size 1024 Hz, Hanning window. The species are arranged according to body size