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SPECIES Rhinolophus euryale
Author: | Blasius, 1853. | Citation: | Arch. Naturgesch., 19(1): 49. | Common Name: | Mediterranean Horseshoe Bat | Type Locality: | Italy, Milan. | Distribution: | Transcaucasia to Turkey, Israel, and Jordan; S Europe from Portugal, C France to S Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, and Romania; Turkmenistan; Iran; Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia; various Mediterranean islands; perhaps Egypt. | Status: | IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Vulnerable. | Comments: | euryale species group. Revised by DeBlase (1972); also see Harrison and Bates (1991), Paz (1995), Zagorodnyuk (1999), Horácek et al. (2000), and Gaisler (2001b). Does not include tuneti; see Cockrum (1976b). |
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