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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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