Rhinolophus malayanus Bonhote, 1903

Voon-Ching Lim, Rosli Ramli, Subha Bhassu & John-James Wilson, 2017, A checklist of the bats of Peninsular Malaysia and progress towards a DNA barcode reference library, PLoS ONE 12 (7), pp. 1-65 : 33

Rhinolophus malayanus Bonhote, 1903

Rhinolophus malayanus Bonhote, 1903: 15 ; Biserat , Jalor, Patani, south THAILAND (Collector unknown: BM(NH) 1903.2.6.83) [ 164].

Common English name: Malayan Horseshoe Bat

Barcode Index Number: BOLD: AAA 9603 (1 DNA barcode from Peninsular Malaysia; Fig 5 )

IUCN status: Least Concern

Recorded at: Perlis: Perak: Bukit Jerneh Cave and Tumang Lembing Cave [ 30]; Wang Kelian State Park [ 50], Wang Tangga at Kaki Bukit [ 140]; Kedah: Kisap Forest Reserve in Pulau Langkawi [ 140].

R. malayanus roosts in limestone caves in colonies of hundreds of individuals [ 14].

Figures

Fig 5. Neighbour-joining tree showing all available DNA barcodes for species in family Rhinolophidae reported from Peninsular Malaysia. The percentage of pseudoreplicate trees (±70%) in which the DNA barcodes clustered together in the bootstrap test (500 pseudoreplicates) are shown above the branches. Abbreviation as follows: PM = Peninsular Malaysia,VN = Vietnam, BN = Borneo (including Sabah & Sarawak of East Malaysia, Brunei and Kalimantan Indonesia), TH = Thailand, LA = Laos, SM = Sumatera Indonesia, JV = Java Indonesia, IND = India, CH = China, CM = Cambodia,MN = Myanmar. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179555.g005