Hipposideros grandis G. M. Allen 1934
Authors/Creators
- 1. Wildlife Biology and Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State 500007, India & Systematics, Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, Zoo Outreach Organization, 96, Kumudham Nagar, Vilankurichi Road, Coimbatore 641035, India & Corresponding author: E-mail: chelmalasrinivasulu @ gmail. com
- 2. Biodiversity Research and Conservation Society, 303 Nestcon Orchid, Kanajiguda, Tirumalgiri, Secunderabad, Telangana State 500015, India
- 3. Wildlife Biology and Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State 500007, India & Systematics, Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, Zoo Outreach Organization, 96, Kumudham Nagar, Vilankurichi Road, Coimbatore 641035, India
- 4. Wildlife Biology and Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State 500007, India
- 5. Harrison Institute, Bowerwood House, 15 St Botolph's Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN 13 3 AQ, United Kingdom
- 6. School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E 1 4 NS, United Kingdom
- 7. School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, University of Bristol, Bristol BS 8 1 TQ, United Kingdom
Description
9. Hipposideros grandis G. M. Allen, 1934
Grand Roundleaf Bat
New records
Little Andaman Island: Hut Bay, V.K. Pur, Kalapather, Patak Tikri and Sundarpur.
Previous records Little Andaman Island: no exact location (HZM).
Comments
Ten individuals were captured out of which four specimens were collected. The external and craniodental measurements of the voucher specimens match with that of H. grandis. Earlier this population was assigned to H. larvatus by Aul et al. (2014). We follow Kruskop (2015) in delineating the ranges of H. grandis and H. larvatus, with the former occurring in India, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, and the latter in Java, Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra. The bacular morphology of these two taxa varies significantly, and shows a greater degree of plasticity in many isolated insular populations (Kruskop, 2015). The baculum structure of the Andaman specimens also varies from that of H. grandis from Vietnam (Kruskop, 2015), thus prompting us to list them as H. cf. grandis. A study aimed at resolving the taxonomic status of H. cf. grandis from the Andaman Islands is under preparation.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- G. M. Allen
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Hipposideridae
- Genus
- Hipposideros
- Species
- grandis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hipposideros grandis Allen, 1934 sec. Srinivasulu, Srinivasulu, Srinivasulu, Gopi, Dar, Bates, Rossiter & Jones, 2017
References
- AUL, B., P. J. J. BATES, D. L. HARRISON, and G. MARIMUTHU. 2014. Diversity, distribution and status of bats on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Oryx, 48: 204 - 212.
- KRUSKOP, S. V. 2015. Dull and bright: cryptic diversity within the Hipposideros larvatus group in Indochina (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae). Lynx (N. S.), 46: 29 - 42.