Rhinolophus clivosus Cretzschmar 1828

Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2), pp. 371-391 : 377

Rhinolophus clivosus Cretzschmar 1828

Several rhinolophid individuals captured in the foothills and montane plateau of Mount Namuli and Mount Mabu were ascribed to R. clivosus on the

basis of the rounded connecting process, minute 1st upper premolar outside of the toothrow, cranial measurements ( Table 2 ) and molecular grounds. However, peak echolocation frequencies ranged between 79.8–81.0 kHz (ANABAT, Pettersson D240x, n = 12), 10–11 kHz lower than in South Africa ( Monadjem et al., 2007, 2010; Schoeman and Jacobs, 2008). Despite these differences in echolocation frequency, the Mozambican individuals showed no genetic differentiation (mtDNA control region) from South African R. clivosus .

Field measurements: FA (adult male) 52.7 ± 0.67 (51.8–53.5, 7); Bm (adult male) 14.5 ± 0.91 (13.0– 15.5, 7); FA (adult female) 54.5 (1); Bm (adult female) 16.0 (1). Mean nose-leaf width was 8.13 ± 0.63 for males (n = 7) and 8.0 for the single female.