Subspecies Hipposideros ater aruensis J.E. Gray, 1858

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hipposideros aruensis Gray, J.E. 1858. List of species of Mammalia sent from the Aru Islands by Mr A.R. Wallace to the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1858: 106-113 pls 63-64 [Date published 27/Apr/1858: publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [440]] [107].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 58.2.20.1 ♂ skin & skull, Aru Kepulauan (as Aru Islands).
• Hipposideros albanensis Gray, J.E. 1866. Notes on some Mammalia from Port Albany (Cape York Peninsula), North Australia, with the descriptions of some new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 219-221 pl. 25 [Date published 5 Sept. 1866: publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84 [72]] [220].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 66.4.23.7 skin & skull, Port Albany, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, coastal, gregarious, insectivorous, predator, volant.

History of changes