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Hipposideros cyclops
Order: Chiroptera > Family: Hipposideridae > Genus: Hipposideros > Species: Hipposideros cyclops
Type Description
Esquisses Zool. Sur la Cote de Guine, p. 75.
Type Locality
Ghana, Bounty River.
Measurements
Head and body: 72-87 mm
Tail length: 23-33 mm
Forearm Length: 59-71 mm
Weight: 30-39 g
Tail length: 23-33 mm
Forearm Length: 59-71 mm
Weight: 30-39 g
Description
Hipposideros cyclops is a woolly bat and is so named because of the erect extension off the center of the back lappet of the nose-leaf with a small club at the tip.
Distribution
Hipposideros cyclops is restricted to the forest belt of Africa from Guinea along the coastline east to Uganda, southwest Kenya and northwest Tanzania. (Kingdon, 1984, 1997)
Key References
1. Kingdon, J. 1984. East African mammals: An atlas of evolution in Africa. (Insectivores and Bats). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2A:189, 250-252.
2. Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals, AP Natural World Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego, p. 126-127.
3. Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1:332-337.
4. Simmons, N.B. 2005. Order Chiroptera, pp. 312-529. In Wilson, D. E., and D. M. Reeder, eds., Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
2. Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon field guide to African mammals, AP Natural World Academic Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego, p. 126-127.
3. Nowak, R. M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Sixth ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1:332-337.
4. Simmons, N.B. 2005. Order Chiroptera, pp. 312-529. In Wilson, D. E., and D. M. Reeder, eds., Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.