Rhinolophus alcyone

Temminck, 1853

Halcyon Horseshoe Bat

Taxonomy

Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Chiroptera
Suborder: Yinpterochiroptera
Superfamily: Rhinolophoidea
Family: Rhinolophidae
Genus: Rhinolophus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Temminck, C.J. 1853. Esquisses zoologiques sur la côte de Guiné. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 256 pp.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14835827

Original name as described

Rhinolophus alcyone

Type material

RMNH.MAM.35892

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.35892.a https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.35892.b

Type locality

"La rivière Boutry à la Guiné [= Boutry River, Ghana]."

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Cameroon · Central African Republic · Cote d'Ivoire · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Equatorial Guinea · Gabon · Ghana · Guinea · Liberia · Nigeria · Republic of the Congo · Senegal · Sierra Leone · South Sudan · Togo · Uganda

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004655

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 2 names and synonyms.

Rhinolophus alcyone

Temminck, 1853

Family

Rhinolophidae

Root name

alcyone

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

RMNH.MAM.35892

Type kind

holotype

Original type locality

La rivière Boutry [=Butre] à la Guiné

Type locality

Ghana.

Type specimen URI

https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.35892.a https://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/RMNH.MAM.35892.b

Authority page

80

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14835827

Authority publication

Leiden

Name usages

Peters (1871:311, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36627561) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/66510)
Andersen (1906:187, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43076193) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67596)
Allen (1939:73, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2782127) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5450)
Eisentraut (1963:83) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68788)
Koopman (1975:387) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35441)
Corbet & Hill (1980:48) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:142) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
Corbet & Hill (1991:53) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
Koopman (1993:164) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69007)
Koopman (1994:54) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58061)
Simmons (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8551)
Fahr, Djossa & Vierhaus (2006:245) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/1766)
Happold & Happold (2013:311) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/27624)
Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #19523) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #19523) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
Wilson & Mittermeier (2019:281) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59249)
Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1004655) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
Patterson, Demos, Torrent, Grunwald, Montauban, Kerbis Peterhans, McDonough, Dick, Bartonjo, Schoeman, Ruedas & Juste (2024:198) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/70523)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/19523/21981963) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Rhinolophus alcyone alcyone:

G. M. Allen, 1939

Family

Rhinolophidae

Root name

alcyone

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

73

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2782127

Authority publication

Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology

Name usages

Allen (1939:73, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2782127) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5450)

Publications

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