Rhinolophus ruwenzorii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Rhinolophoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Trechnotheria Infraclassis: Zatheria Supercohors: Theria Cohors: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Cladus: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Cladus: Scrotifera Ordo: Chiroptera Subordo: Yinpterochiroptera Superfamilia: Rhinolophoidea

Rhinolophus ruwenzorii Hill, 1942: 1

Holotype: AMNH 82394, adult ♀, body in alcohol with skull removed, collected by James P. Chapin, Sage and Mathews on 24 December 1926.
Type locality: “south side of Butahu Valley, western slope of Mount Ruwenzori [DR Congo], altitude 7,500 feet [= 2286 m]”.

Rhinolophus kahuzi Fahr & Kerbis Peterhans in Kerbis Peterhan et al., 2013: 194 [synonymised by Demos et al. (2019: 11)]
- Holotype: FMNH 219793, subadult ♂, body in alcohol with skull removed, collected by R. Kizungu on 28 July 2007.
- Type locality: “Western slope of Mt Kahuzi, Kahuzi-Biega National Park, South Kivu Province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2°15'09"S, 28°40'09"E, 2600 m. Found within mixed Afrocarpus and Nuxia forest on the slope of Mt Kahuzi”.

Hill, J.E. 1942. A new bat of the Rhinolophus philippinensis group from Mount Ruwenzori, Africa. American Museum Novitates 1180: 1–2. hdl: 2246/4780 Reference page.
Kerbis Peterhans, J.C., Fahr, J., Huhndorf, M.H., Kaleme, P., Plumptre, A.J., Marks, B.D. & Kizungu, R. 2013. Bats (Chiroptera) from the Albertine Rift, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, with the description of two new species of the Rhinolophus maclaudi group. Bonn zoological bulletin 62(2): 186–202. PDF Reference page.
Demos, T.C., Webala, P.W., Goodman, S.M., Kerbis Peterhans, J.C., Bartonjo, M. & Patterson, B.D. 2019. Molecular phylogenetics of the African horseshoe bats (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae): expanded geographic and taxonomic sampling of the Afrotropics. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19: 166. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-019-1485-1 Reference page.

English: Ruwenzori Horseshoe Bat