Hipposideros pratti, Thomas, 1891

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Pratt’s Leaf-nosed Bat

Hipposideros pratti

French: Phyllorhine de Pratt / German: Pratt-Rundblattnase / Spanish: Hiposidérido de Pratt

Other common names: Pratt's Roundleaf Bat

Taxonomy. Hipposiderus [sic] pratti Thomas, 1891 ,

“Kia-ting-fu [= Kiatingfu], Western Sze-chuen [= Sichuan], China.”

Hipposideros pratti is in the pratti species group. Monotypic.

Distribution. C, E & S China (including Hainan I) and N Vietnam; a record from N Myanmar has not been confirmed.

Descriptive notes. Head-body 91-110 mm, tail 50-62 mm, ear 33-38 mm, hindfoot 15-22 mm, forearm 79-89 mm.

Pratt’s Leaf-nosed Bat is a large Hipposideros . It has “shield” (enlarged fleshy lobes, behind posterior noseleaf) as in the Shield-faced Leaf-nosed Bat (77. lylei ), but much smaller; in females, in particular, it looks like a ridge rather than a shield. Posterior and anterior noseleaves are similar in width but notjoined. There are two lateral leaflets on each cheek. Pelage is reddish brown, and paler on ventral side. In skull, sagittal is well developed; rostral chambers are somewhat flattened, less inflated than those of the Shield-faced Leaf-nosed Bat and the Shield-nosed Leaf-nosed Bat (77. scutinazKs). P2 is small and slightly extruded from tooth row.

Habitat Pratt’s Leaf-nosed Bat is a cave-dwelling species.

Food and Feeding. Pratt’s Leaf-nosed Bat feeds on insects in the understory of primary and disturbed lowland forest.

Breeding. Females with young were captured in earlyJuly.

Activity patterns. Pratt’s Leaf-nosed Bat roosts in caves. Echolocation is a CF/FM type, with a call frequency of the F segment of 58-62 kHz.

Movements, Home range and Social organization. Pratt’s Leaf-nosed Bats roost in large colonies; a maternity colony may have several hundred individuals. The species has been found in a mixed colony with the larger Great Himalayan Leaf-nosed Bat (77. armiger ).

Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on 7%e IUCN Red List. Pratt’s Leaf-nosed Bat is widespread and locally common in south China.

Bibliography. Corbet & Hill (1992), Francis (2008a), Francis & Bates (2008a), Niu Huiling eta/. (2007), Robinson eta/. (2003), Simmons (2005), Smith &XieYan (2008), Zhang Libiao, Jones eta/. (2009).

Figures

24. Large-eared Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros megalotis), 25. Boeadi’s Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros boeadii), 26. Ha Long Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros alongensis), 27. Great Himalayan Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros armiger), 28. Griffin’s Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros griffoni), 29. Pendlebury’s Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros pendleburyi), 30. Lesser Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros turpis), 31. Grand Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros grandis), 32. Horsfield’s Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros larvatus), 33. Maduran Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros madurae), 34. Sorensen’s Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros sorenseni), 35. Sumban Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros sumbae), 36. Shield-faced Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros lylei), 37. Pratt’s Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros pratti), 38. Shield-nosed Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros scutinares), 39. Makira Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros demissus), 40. Diadem Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros diadema), 41. Fierce Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros dinops), 42. Crested Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros inexpectatus), 43. Amhem Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros inomatus), 44. Indian Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros lankadiva), 45. Large Asian Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros lekaguli), 46. Peleng Leaf-nosed Bat (Hipposideros pelingensis)

Distribution. C, E & S China (including Hainan I) and N Vietnam ; a record from N Myanmar has not been confirmed.