Hipposideros caffer Sundevall 1846

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Hipposideridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 365-379 : 368

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scientific name	Hipposideros caffer Sundevall 1846
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Hipposideros caffer Sundevall 1846 , Ofv. K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. Stockholm, Vol. 3, 4: 118.

Type Locality: South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal Prov., near Durban.

Vernacular Names: Sundevall's Leaf-nosed Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Hipposideros caffer subsp. caffer Sundevall 1846

Subspecies Hipposideros caffer subsp. angolensis Seabra 1898

Subspecies Hipposideros caffer subsp. nanus J. A. Allen 1917

Subspecies Hipposideros caffer subsp. tephrus Cabrera 1906

Distribution: SW Arabian Peninsula including Yemen; most of subsaharan Africa except the central forested region; Morocco; Zanzibar and Pemba.

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

Discussion: bicolor species group. Includes tephrus; see Hayman and Hill (1971). Reviewed in part by Harrison and Bates (1991) and Horácek et al. (2000). See Taylor (2000 a) for distribution map. Subspecies limits are somewhat unclear, and it is possible that this complex includes more than one species.