The Sri Lankan roundleaf bat, Hipposideros srilankaensis, also called the Sri Lankan leaf-nosed bat, is an Old World leaf-nosed bat endemic to Sri Lanka. It was described in 2025 on the basis of a taxonomic split of Cantor's roundleaf bat, Hipposideros galeritus, so populations on the island that were once counted within that species are now treated as a separate one. The Mammal Diversity Database gives the type locality as Makulella near Bandarawela in the Badulla district of Uva Province, places the species in the Indomalayan realm as a living species and lists no IUCN evaluation for it. The English Wikipedia article is a stub, so details of its size, diet and roosts are not described here.
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Child Taxon Of: Hipposideridae, Lead, family
is a species of Old World leaf-nosed bat
In Group: Bats (Chiroptera), Lead, everyday group
is a species of Old World leaf-nosed bat
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