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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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SUBSPECIES euryale

SUBSPECIES judaicus

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