Genus Rhinolophus Lacépède, 1799

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhinolophus Lacépède, B.G.É. (as Lacepède) 1799. Discours d'Ouverture et de Clôture du Cours d'Histoire Naturelle Donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 1'an VII de la République, et tableaux méthodiques des mammifères et des oiseaux. Paris : Plassan 94 pp. [publication date established from Sherborn, C.D. 1899. Lacepède's 'Tableaux...des mammifères et des oiseaux,' 1799. Nat. Sci., Lond. 15: 406–409 [409]] [15 tableau] [tableau des division, sous-divisions, méthodiques des mammifères et des oiseaux].

  Type species:

   Vespertilio ferrumequinum Schreber, 1774 (=Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber, 1774)) by monotypy.
• Rhinophyllotis Troughton, E. 1941. Furred Animals of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xxviii 374 pp. 25 pls [342].

  Type species:

   Rhinolophus megaphyllus Gray, 1834 (=Rhinophyllotis megaphyllus (Gray, 1834)) by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tate, G.H.H. 1952. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 66 Mammals of Cape York Peninsula with notes on the occurrence of rain forest in Queensland. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 98: 563-616 [608]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Africa, Europe, Asia, SE Asian islands, New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Oriental Region

• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

Distribution References