Table ̚: Diagnostic morphological characteristics of the Hipposideros armiger captured in cave of the Sadar Upazila subdistrict (Bandarban district, Bangladesh) and closely related species of the genus Hipposideros in South Asia according to Srinivasulu et al. (2010).
| External characters |
This study |
H. armiger |
H. speoris |
H. larvatus |
H. lankadiva |
| (mm) |
|
(Hodgson, ̚s̒ƽ) |
(Schneider, ̚see) |
(Horsfield, ̚sz̒) |
(Kellart, ̚sƽe) |
| Forearm length |
90.1 |
85.4–95.0 |
45.6–54.0 |
61.2–64.8 |
75.0–99.0 |
| Head body length |
98.3 |
82.0–105.0 |
46.0–62.0 |
74.0–78.0 |
87.0–106.0 |
| Tail length |
49.9 |
50.0–64.0 |
20.0–29.0 |
37.0–44.0 |
35.0–58.0 |
| Ear length |
26.6 |
26.0–34.0 |
12.5–19.0 |
23.0–26.0 |
19.5–30.0 |
| No. of supplementary |
4 (4th much |
4 (4th much reduced) |
3 (3rd much reduced) |
4 (4th much reduced) |
4 (4th sometimes |
| leaflets |
reduced) |
|
|
|
absent) |