Rhinolophus speoris Schneider, 1800

Rhinolophus speoris Schneider, 1800: pl. 59b.

COMMON NAME. — Schneider’s Leaf-nosed Bat.

CURRENT NAME. — Hipposideros speoris (Schneider, 1800) .

See Simmons (2005: 377) and Monadjem (2019: 245).

COLLECTOR/S. — Probably a donation to François Péron, contra Desmarest (1821: 126) who mentions Charles-Alexandre Lesueur). Donor should have been Jean Macé (Jansen 2016b).

COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Tranquebar, Madras, India (Simmons 2005: 377).

COLLECTION DATE. — No data.

SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — No specimen identified in MNHN collection.

ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.