Hipposideros caffer (Sundevall 1846)

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 : 379-381

Hipposideros caffer (Sundevall 1846)

This species was recorded at nine sites throughout Mozambique. Hipposideros caffer and H. ruber (below) were not recorded sympatrically although there are no obvious ecological differences in the habitats selected by these two species within Mozambique. Further survey work is needed to determine whether their distributions overlap in northern Mozambique. Peak echolocation frequencies of two individuals were recorded at 145 kHz (ANABAT), which is similar to the peak echolocation frequencies recorded in South Africa (142.6 kHz — Schoeman and Jacobs, 2008; Monadjem et al., 2010).

Field measurements: FA (adult male) 45.9 ± 1.55 (44.1–48.7, 13); Bm (adult male) 7.4 ± 1.21 (6.0– 9.5, 12); FA (adult female) 46.6 ± 1.50 (44.1–47.8, 6); Bm (adult female) 6.5 ± 0.50 (6.0–7.0, 3).