Hipposideros gigas Wagner 1845

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Hipposideridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 365-379 : 372

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11346345

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scientific name

Hipposideros gigas Wagner 1845
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Hipposideros gigas Wagner 1845 View in CoL

Hipposideros gigas Wagner 1845 View in CoL , Arch. Naturgesch., 11 (1): 148.

Type Locality: Angola, Benguela.

Vernacular Names: Giant Leaf-nosed Bat.

Synonyms: Hipposideros gambiensis K. Andersen 1906 ; Hipposideros niangarae J. A. Allen 1917 .

Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Central African Republic, Uganda, Dem. Rep. Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea (incl. Bioko), Cameroon, Nigeria and west to Senegal. The range of this taxon may be more extensive and is currently under review (J. Fahr, pers. comm.).

Conservation: IUCN 2003 – Not evaluated; not considered in IUCN / SSC Action Plan (2001).

Discussion: commersoni species group. Formerly included in commersoni , but clearly distinct based on differences in morphology and echolocation calls (J. Fahr and D. Kock, pers. comm.; D. Lunde, pers. comm.; McWilliam, 1982; Pye, 1972). Reviewed in part by Peterson et al. (1995). Some West African specimens identified as gigas may represent vittatus (J. Fahr, pers. comm.).

SSC

Sacramento State University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Hipposideridae

Genus

Hipposideros

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Hipposideros gigas Wagner 1845

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Hipposideros gigas

Wagner 1845: 148
1845
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