Rhinolophus hipposiderus Bechst
Creators: name: Andersen, Knud
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1905
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus
Rhinolophus hipposiderus

description: 27 <i>b.</i> Rhinolophus hipposiderus Bechst., typicus. <i>Vespertilio Ferrum equinum</i> (partim) Schreber, Säugthiere, i. (1775) pp. 174, 188, pl. 62 (lower fig. only). <i>Vespertilio equinus</i> (partim) P. L. S. Müller, Natursvst., Suppl. (1776) p. 20. <i>Vespertilio Ferrum equinum,</i> ss. <i>minor,</i> Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. (1788) p. 50. <i>Vespertilio Hippocrepis</i> (partim) Schrank, Fauna Boica, i. (1798) p. 64. <i>Vespertilio Hipposideros</i> Bechstein, in Pennant’s Allg. Uebers. vierfüss. Thiere, ii. (1800) p. 629, footnote (compare also pp. 615 and 736). <i>Vespertilio hippocrepis</i> Hermann, Obs. Zool. (1804) p. 18. <i>Rhinolophus bi-hastatus</i> Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Descr. de l’Égypte, ii. (1812) p. 132; id., Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. xx. (1813) p. 259, pl. 5. * For the loan of this specimen I am indebted to Prof. Dr. Kurt Lampert, Director of the Royal Natural History Cabinet, Stuttgart. The type is a young, but apparently fullgrown, individual. <i>AU</i> other examples of <i>hipposiderus,</i> of allraces, of which I give the measurements, are fully adult (distal epiphyses of metacarpals ossified). ■ <i>f</i> As I have seen only one example from Spain, I may mention that of the whole series examined by Cabrera Latorre, for his “Quirópteros de Espana, <i>”</i> no Spanish specimen had the forearm <i>more</i> than 37'5 mm. (Mem. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. ii. (1904') p. 252). I am unacquainted with the <i>Rh. phasma</i> (allied to <i>hipposiderus)</i> described by Cabrera in the same paper. <i>Rhinolophus Hipposideros</i> var. <i>typus</i> <i>, alpinus,</i> et <i>pallidus</i> (partim) Koch, Jahrb. Ver. Naturk. Nassau (1862-63) pp. 530- 3 *. <i>Rhinolophus hipposideros</i> (partim) Peters, MB. Akad. Berlin, 1871, p. 310; Dobson, Cat. Ohir. Brit. Mus. (1878) p. 117. <i>Rhinolophus bihastatus</i> var. <i>Kisnyiresiensis</i> Daclay, Orvos-Term. Értes. X. pt. 3 (1885) p. 274. <i>Rhinolophus hipposideros</i> var. <i>troglophilus</i> Daday, Magy. tud. Akad. Értekez. xvi. pt. 7 (1886) p. 8, figs., 2. <i>Rhinolophus euryale helvetica</i> Bretscher, Vierteljahrssc.hr. naturi. Ges. Zürich, xlix. (1904) p. 256 f. <i>Diagnosis.</i> Large: forearm 39-41'7 mm. <i>Distribution.</i> 33 specimens have been examined, from the following localities:— Gilgit (1): forearm 39'8. Unni, N.W. Persia (1): 39'8. Van, Armenia (2): 39'2-39'3. Cyprus (1): 39'6$. N. Bulgaria (1): 39. Roumania (13): 39-41'2. Transsylvania (2): 40-41. S. Car­ pathians (1): 39'3. Hungary (1): 41'7. Schlangenbad (2): 40-40T. Strassbourg (3): 39-40'1. Thurgau and Vai lais (5): 40'2-41'7. Summary of Distribution: <i>—</i> From the extreme N.W. Himalayas, through N.W. Persia and Armenia, over the whole of Central ö <i>Kfl</i> I ■ <b>_</b> Jflj fl <b>11. |MflM^^fl|</b> <i>BK</i> Europe N. of the Balkans and the Alps.
description: Published as part of <i>Andersen, Knud, 1905, On some Bats of the Genus Rhinolophus, with Remarks on their Mutual Affinities, and Descriptions of Twenty-six new Forms., pp. 75-145 in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2</i> on pages 141-142, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3757451