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A new species of horseshoe bat (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from Mount Namuli, Mozambique

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  • 1. Formerly: Department of Environmental Sciences, Biogeography Section, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland & Present address: Department of Socioeconomic Sciences, Research Institute for Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Ackerstrasse 113, P.O. Box 219, CH-5070 Frick, Switzerland & Corresponding author: E-mail: michael.curran@fibl.org
  • 2. Freelance consultant, 3550 Langnau i.E., Switzerland
  • 3. Natural History Museum of Geneva, Genève 6, Switzerland
  • 4. Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, OX3 0BP, United Kingdom & African Butterfly Research Institute, P.O. Box 14308, 0800 Nairobi, Kenya

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Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam, Ruedi, Manuel, Bayliss, Julian (2022): A new species of horseshoe bat (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from Mount Namuli, Mozambique. Acta Chiropterologica 24 (1): 19-40, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2022.24.1.002

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