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SPECIES Rhinolophus denti

Author:Thomas, 1904.
Citation:Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 13: 386.
Common Name:Dent's Horseshoe Bat
Type Locality:South Africa, Northern Cape Prov., Kuruman.
Distribution:Northern Cape Prov. (South Africa), Namibia, Angola, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ghana. A Côte d’Ivoire record is incorrect (it actually represents landeri; J. Fahr, pers. comm.), and reports from Gambia similarly seem to represent misidentified landeri (Kock et al., 2002).
Status:IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:capensis species group. May include swinnyi, see discussion in Csorba et al. (2003).
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SUBSPECIES knorri

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