Hipposideros cervinus (Gould 1854)

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 : 13

Hipposideros cervinus (Gould 1854)

Fawn-colored Leaf-nosed Bat (Kelawar Ladam Bulat Gua)

Specimens examined (28).—Krau: TTU 108172 (GenBank EU521617 ), TK 152007, TTU 108193, TTU 108194, TTU 108195, TTU 108197, TTU 108208, TTU 108220, TTU 108221; Monggis: TTU 108233; Bako NP: TTU 108268, TTU 108269, TTU 108270, TTU 108271, TTU 108288, TTU 108290, TTU 108291, TTU 108292, TTU 108300; Kubah NP: TTU 108316, TTU 108328, TTU 108331, TTU 108332; Mt. Penrisen: TTU 108365, TTU 108367, TTU 108414, TTU 108389, TTU 108392.

Type locality.— Australia, Queensland, Cape York and Albany Island.

Malaysian distribution.—Recorded from Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.

Remarks.— Bicolor species group (Corbet and Hill 1992). Hipposideros cervinus is known to forage on small insects in the forest understory and was collected at all study sites using harp traps. Variation in color of dorsal fur was observed among individuals. In the field, H. cervinus is easily distinguished from most other Hipposiderids, with the exception of H. galeritus . Hipposideros galeritus and H. cervinus are very similar morphologically, but can usually be distinguished from each other by the longer tail length (30-43 mm) and broader intermediate noseleaf compared to the posterior noseleaf (Hill 1963; Hill 1983; Payne et al. 1985) in H. galeritus . Despite differences in color forms there were no substantial morphological differences or cyt- b genetic distance values (<1%) within and between individuals of H. cervinus from Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.