Persian trident bat

The Persian trident bat, Triaenops persicus, also called the rufous trident bat or triple nose-leaf bat, is a bat of the genus Triaenops that occurs in southwestern Pakistan, southern Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Yemen. George Dobson described it in 1871 from a specimen taken near Shiraz in Iran. In Yemen it lives alongside the much smaller Yemeni trident leaf-nosed bat. Populations from Madagascar and mainland Africa were once assigned to this species but are now treated as the rufous trident bat and the African trident bat, and the name Triaenops rufus is a synonym of this species. Bats in the Rift Valley of Kenya, once thought to be African trident bats, may belong here, differing somewhat in skull shape and calls.