Rhinolophus shortridgei K. Andersen 1918
Creators: name: Burgin, Connor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus
Rhinolophus shortridgei

description: 67. Shortridge’s Horseshoe Bat <i>Rhinolophus shortridgei</i> French: <i>Rhinolophe</i> de Shortridge / <b>German:</b> Shortridge-Hufeisennase / <b>Spanish:</b> Herradura <i>de</i> Shortridge Taxonomy. <i>Rhinolophus lepidus shortridgei</i> K. Andersen, 1918, “ Pagan, R[<i>iver</i>]. Irrawaddy, Burma [= Myanmar].” <i>Rhinolophus shortridgei</i> is included in the <i>pusiUus</i> species group; it is close to <i> R <i>monticolus,</i> and together these two make <i> R <i>pusiUus</i> paraphyletic. <i>Rhinolophus shortridgei</i> was <i>previously</i> included in <i>R lepidus, but</i> is recognized as a distinct species based on morphological and genetic differences presented <i>by</i> G. Csorba and colleagues in 2003 and by P. Soisook and others in 2016. The precise distribution of this species has not been well established in the areas where it comes together with <i>R lepidus, especially</i> as the two are sympatric in some areas. Monotypic.</i></i> <b>Distribution.</b> NE India (Falta, West Bengal), N &amp; C Myanmar, and S &amp; SE China. Descriptive <b>notes.</b> Head-body 40- 6-59 mm, tail 16-1-29- 4 mm, ear 14-20 mm, hindfoot 6-9- 7 mm, forearm 38- 2—43 mm; <i>weight</i> 5-5—8- 8 g. Shortridge’s Horseshoe Bat is at present externally inseparable from Blyth’s Horseshoe Bat <i>(lepidus);</i> only dried study skins are known for the species, so the external characteristics remain rather uncertain. Dorsal pelage is fight brown on the upper side, whereas ventral pelage is much paler, dirty white or <i>gray</i>. Ears are moderate in size. Noseleaf has a <i>concave-sided</i> lancet; connecting process is a pointed triangle; sella is more or less parallel-sided and <i>widely</i> rounded above; horseshoe does not cover muzzle (6-7— 7-9 mm wide) and has small lateral leaflets. Lower lip has three mental grooves. Skull is robust (zygomatic width is larger than mastoid width); anterior median swellings are low and <i>very</i> small; posterior compartments are <i>relatively</i> large; rostral profile is slightly curved upward near tip; sagittal crest is very well developed; frontal depression is shallow; supraorbital crests are conspicuous. C1 is widebased and long; P2 is medium-sized and within tooth row; P3 is small to moderate in size and half to fully displaced from tooth row, usually separating P2 from P4. Habitat In Myanmar, Shortridge’s Horseshoe <b>Bat</b> has been collected in seasonally dry dipterocarp forest. <b>Food and</b> Feeding. No information. Breeding. No information. <b>Activity patterns.</b> Shortridge’s Horseshoe <b>Bat</b> is nocturnal. Search call shape is FM/ CF/FM with a peak F recorded at 94-5-100-7 kHz in <b>Myanmar</b>, females having higher frequency calls than males. <b>Movements, Home range and Social organization.</b> No information. <b>Status and</b> Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on <i>The IUCNed List.</i> Shortridge’s Horseshoe Bat is widespread, and there are currently no major threats known to be affecting it. <i>Virtually</i> nothing is known of this species’ ecology, and further studies are needed. <b>Bibliography.</b> Bates et <i>al.</i> (2004), Chiozza (2008b), Csorba (2002), Csorba eta/. (2003), rancis (2008a), Smith &amp; <i>XieYan</i> (2008), Soisook <i>et al.</i> (2016).
description: Published as part of <i>Burgin, Connor, 2019, Rhinolophidae, pp. 280-332 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions</i> on page 312, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3748525