Hipposideros galeritus Cantor 1846

FAISAL ALI ANWARALI KHAN, VICKI J. SWIER, SERGIO SOLARI, PETER A. LARSEN, BESAR KETOL, WAHAP MARNI, SIVANATHAN ELLAGUPILLAY, MAKLARIN LAKIM, MOHAMMAD TAJUDDIN ABDULLAH & ROBERT J. BAKER, 2008, USING GENETICS AND MORPHOLOGY TO EXAMINE SPECIES DIVERSITY OF OLD WORLD BATS: REPORT OF A RECENT COLLECTION FROM MALAYSIA, Occasional Papers of the Museum 281, pp. 1-30 : 14-16

Hipposideros galeritus Cantor 1846

Cantor’s Leaf-nosed Bat (Kelawar Ladam Bulat Gua)

Specimens examined (9).—Bako NP: TTU 108279 (GenBank EU521621 ), TTU 108283, TTU 108293, TTU 108302, TTU 108303; Mt. Penrisen:TTU 108354, TTU 108356, TTU 108375, TTU 108416.

Type locality.— Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia), Penang Island.

Malaysia distribution.—Recorded from Peninsular Malaysia (Kedah: Pulau Singa, Ulu Muda; Negeri Sembilan: Broga; Pahang: Krau, Taman Negara; Perak: Maxwell Hill; Pulau Pinang: Balik Pulau; and Selangor: Bukit Kutu, Hulu Gombak, Hulu Langat) and throughout Borneo. Our specimens constitute a new geographic record for Mt. Penrisen .

Remarks.— Bicolor species group (Corbet and Hill 1992). Hipposideros galeritus was caught in harp traps along with H. cervinus . Field characters that distinguish H. galeritus from H. cervinus include tail length (30–43 mm in H. galeritus ; 21-28 mm in H. cervinus ) and broader median than posterior noseleaf; whereas broader posterior noseleaf exists in H. cervinus (Hill 1963) . A male H. galeritus (TTU 108375; 18 August 2006) from Mt. Penrisen had a facial gland behind the posterior noseleaf ( Fig. 4). When pressure was applied to the side of this gland, hair-like structures with green secretions emerged.