Rhinolophus cf. maendeleo Kock, Csorba, 2000

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 : 378-379

Rhinolophus cf. maendeleo Kock, Csorba

and Howell 2000

Two specimens assigned to this recently described species were recorded from Mount Namuli in northern Mozambique. They all had a rounded connecting process, similar to R. clivosus , but the

1st upper premolar was small and situated in the toothrow (unlike R. clivosus ). The skull was slender and narrow in shape with gracile zygomatic arches (and MW greater or equal to ZYW — see Table 2 ), undeveloped sagittal and lambdoid crests, a long rostrum with bulbous anterior narial inflation in relation to posterior inflations (giving concave rostral profile) as described by Kock et al. (2000); cranial measurements match closely the values for the holotype and paratype of this species recorded by these authors. However, slight differences between the Mount Namuli male (DM 10833) and the R. maendeleo holotype are present in baculum shape (not shown) and the presence of a bony bar closing the infraorbital foramen (open in holotype and paratype of R. maendeleo but only on the right hand side of one Mount Namuli specimen (DM10833) and on neither side in DM10839). These differences warrant further analyses to determine whether these individuals represent an undescribed species, preferably including molecular comparisons of the Mount Namuli specimens with the holotype and/or paratype. Specimens from Mount Gorongosa and Nyika Plateau of Malawi may also be referable to this species and should be examined (F. P. D. Cotterill, personal communication).

Field measurements: FA (adult male) 47.5 (1); FA (adult female) 48.9 (1). Nose-leaf width was 8.7 for the male and 8.3 for the female.