Rhinolophus (Hipposideros) diadema?, Lacepede, 1799

Horsfield, Thomas, 1851, Rhinolophus, Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the East India Company, 75, Great Queen Street, London: East India Company, Museum, pp. 33-36 : 4

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Rhinolophus (Hipposideros) diadema?
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44. RHINOLOPHUS (HIPPOSIDEROS) DIADEMA?

Hipposideros diadema, Gray ? Cantor, Catalogue of Mam­ malia inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands, p. 11.

RhinolophUs diadema, Geoffroy ? Ann. du Mus. XX. p. 263.

A very perfect specimen of a large Rinolophe, from the Malayan PeninsUla has been presented to the MUseUm by Dr. Cantor, of Which he gives the folloWing details in the catalogUe above mentioned, p. 11.

“ The Malayan individUals are, according to age and sex, of a more or less intense reddish or greyish broWn above, Under certain lights assUming a golden lUstre, oWing to the Whitish points of the hairs; beneath, they are of a lighter greyish-broWn. In the adUlt male, the livid flesh-coloUred nasal appendage is larger, more complicated, and someWhat different from the figUre given by Geoffroy St. Hilaire (Ann. dU MUséUm, XX. pl. 5 and 6), Which resembles the female in the simpler appendage in the absence of the frontal pore. The latter organ in the adUlt male is large, secreting a yelloWish-broWn oily flUid...............The size of the Malayan individUals appears to exceed those from Timor.” The specimen sent by Dr. Cantor agrees generally With the R, diadema , described by M. Geoffroy, in coloUr, oUtline of membrane, and form of the ears, bUt it is one-third larger, the body and tail together measUring seven inches, and the flying membrane tWenty-tWo inches. The comparison of fresh specimens Will probably shoW that Dr. Cantor’s species is entitled to a distinct rank; this conjectUre is confirmed by distance of its locality from R. diadema, Which hitherto has only been foUnd in Timor.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Rhinolophidae

Genus

Rhinolophus

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