Rhinolophus cognatus Andersen 1906
Creators
- 1. Wildlife Biology and Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State 500007, India & Systematics, Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, Zoo Outreach Organization, 96, Kumudham Nagar, Vilankurichi Road, Coimbatore 641035, India & Corresponding author: E-mail: chelmalasrinivasulu @ gmail. com
- 2. Biodiversity Research and Conservation Society, 303 Nestcon Orchid, Kanajiguda, Tirumalgiri, Secunderabad, Telangana State 500015, India
- 3. Wildlife Biology and Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State 500007, India & Systematics, Ecology and Conservation Laboratory, Zoo Outreach Organization, 96, Kumudham Nagar, Vilankurichi Road, Coimbatore 641035, India
- 4. Wildlife Biology and Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State 500007, India
- 5. Harrison Institute, Bowerwood House, 15 St Botolph's Road, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN 13 3 AQ, United Kingdom
- 6. School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E 1 4 NS, United Kingdom
- 7. School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, University of Bristol, Bristol BS 8 1 TQ, United Kingdom
Description
7. Rhinolophus cognatus Andersen, 1906 Andaman Horseshoe Bat
New records
Middle Andaman Islands: Baratang Island and Interview Island.
Previous records
North Andaman Islands: Narcondam Island (ZSIK), Point Island (HZM) and an unknown location on North Central Andaman (ZSIK); Middle Andaman Islands: Interview Island (HZM); South Andaman: Mount Harriet (ZSIK).
Comments
Endemic to Andaman Islands. Fifteen individuals were captured out of which seven specimens were collected. Historically this species has been recorded to be present on Narcondam Island, North Central Andaman Island, and Port Blair (Andersen, 1906, 1918; Sinha, 1973). Aul et al. (2014) reported the sightings of this species from North Reef Island, Smith Island, Gandhinagar, Chalis Ek, and Saddle Peak in North Andaman Islands; Interview Island and Baratang Island in Middle Andaman Islands; and Little Andaman Island. This species seemed to be common (vide Aul et al., 2014) on the Andaman Islands before the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. We could not detect the species from other locations reported earlier and so assume that the tsunami had a negative effect on this species. Where the species is present we found their numbers to be very few – ranging from 50 to 200 individuals. R. cognatus is represented by two subspecies on the islands, the nominotypic subspecies, R. c. cognatus, is from the South Andaman Islands, with its type locality recorded as Port Blair (Andersen, 1906), while the second, smaller (Sinha, 1973) subspecies, R. c. famulus, is from the North and Middle Islands, with its type locality recorded as North Central Island (Andersen, 1918).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Rhinolophidae
- Genus
- Rhinolophus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Andersen
- Species
- cognatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhinolophus cognatus Andersen, 1906 sec. Srinivasulu, Srinivasulu, Srinivasulu, Gopi, Dar, Bates, Rossiter & Jones, 2017
References
- ANDERSEN, K. 1906. On some new or little-known bats of the genus Rhinolophus in the collection of the Museo Civico, Genoa. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova Giacomo Doria, 3, 2: 173 - 195.
- ANDERSEN, K. 1918. Diagnoses of new bats of the families Rhinolophidae and Megadermatidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 9, 2: 374 - 384.
- SINHA, Y. P. 1973. Taxonomic studies on the Indian horseshoe bats of the genus Rhinolophus Lacepede. Mammalia, 37: 603 - 630.
- AUL, B., P. J. J. BATES, D. L. HARRISON, and G. MARIMUTHU. 2014. Diversity, distribution and status of bats on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Oryx, 48: 204 - 212.