Genus Rhinolophus Lacépède, 1799

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Genus Rhinolophus Lacépède, 1799

Rhinolophus Lacépède, B.G.É. (as Lacepède) 1799. Discours d'Ouverture et de Clôture du Cours d'Histoire Naturelle Donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 1'an VII de la République, et tableaux méthodiques des mammifères et des oiseaux. Paris : Plassan 94 pp. [publication date established from Sherborn, C.D. 1899. Lacepède's 'Tableaux...des mammifères et des oiseaux,' 1799. Nat. Sci., Lond. 15: 406–409 [409]] [15 tableau] [tableau des division, sous-divisions, méthodiques des mammifères et des oiseaux].
Type species:
Vespertilio ferrumequinum Schreber, 1774 (=Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber, 1774)) by monotypy.
Rhinophyllotis Troughton, E. 1941. Furred Animals of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xxviii 374 pp. 25 pls. [342].
Type species:
Rhinolophus megaphyllus Gray, 1834 (=Rhinophyllotis megaphyllus (Gray, 1834)) by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Tate, G.H.H. 1952. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 66 Mammals of Cape York Peninsula with notes on the occurrence of rain forest in Queensland. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 98: 563-616 [608]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Africa, Europe, Asia, SE Asian islands, New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Oriental Region

Philippines

Palaearctic Region

Distribution References

Nowak, R.M. & Paradiso, J.L. 1983. Walker's Mammals of the World. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press Vol. 1.

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type
12-Dec-2022	CHIROPTERA	12-Dec-2022	MOVED
04-Dec-2018		18-Nov-2010	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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