Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber 1774)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Rhinolophidae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 350-365 : 355

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scientific name	Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber 1774)
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[Vespertilio] ferrumequinum Schreber 1774 , Die Saugethiere, Vol. 1: 174.

Type Locality: France.

Vernacular Names: Greater Horseshoe Bat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Rhinolophus ferrumequinum subsp. ferrumequinum Schreber 1774

Subspecies Rhinolophus ferrumequinum subsp. creticum Iliopoulou-Georgudaki and Ondrias 1985

Subspecies Rhinolophus ferrumequinum subsp. irani Cheesman 1921

Subspecies Rhinolophus ferrumequinum subsp. korai Kuroda 1938

Subspecies Rhinolophus ferrumequinum subsp. nippon Temminck 1835

Subspecies Rhinolophus ferrumequinum subsp. proximus K. Andersen 1905

Subspecies Rhinolophus ferrumequinum subsp. tragatus Hodgson 1835

Distribution: Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia; S Europe from Portugal to Greece and north to S England, the Netherlands, S Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Bulgaria; Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, and Azerbaijan; Urkrain, Crimea, and Caucacus regions; the Mediterranean coast from Turkey to Israel and Jordan; NE Iraq, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, S Kazakhstan, Afganistan, Pakistan, N India, Nepal, Sikkim, China, Korea, and Japan; adjacent small islands. Records at some localities in northern Europe (e.g., the Netherlands) apparently reflect temporary northern range extensions (Glas and Voûte, 1992 a).

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

Discussion: ferrumequinum species group. Revised by Strelkov et al. (1978). Reviewed in part by Yoshiyuki (1989), Harrison and Bates (1991), Paz (1995), Kock (1996), Bates and Harrison (1997), Sinha (1999), Zagorodnyuk (1999), Horácek et al. (2000) and Gaisler (2001 a). Subspecies limits are somewhat unclear and there may be more than one species present in this complex; see discussion in Csorba et al. (2003).