Cantor's roundleaf bat, Hipposideros galeritus, is a leaf-nosed bat of South and Southeast Asia. Theodore Edward Cantor described it in 1846 from a male collected in the valley of Pinang, now Penang in Malaysia, and the species is named for him. The English Wikipedia article lists it from Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam, while the Mammal Diversity Database limits it to Southeast Asia, with Myanmar uncertain, and it notes that the species previously included what is now treated as Dobson's roundleaf bat. The database places it in the Indomalayan realm and records an IUCN status of Least Concern. Its biology is described only briefly in the English article.
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Classification
Living or Extinct Conservation Status Activity Pattern Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Cantor's roundleaf bat (Wikipedia)
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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Hipposideros galeritus (Mammal Diversity Database)Taxon page, Country distribution, BruneiQuote, Taxon page, Country distribution, Brunei
Brunei · Cambodia
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Brunei · Cambodia · Indonesia
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Cambodia · Indonesia · Laos
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Indonesia · Laos · Malaysia
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Laos · Malaysia · Thailand
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Malaysia · Thailand · Vietnam
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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Hipposideros galeritus (Mammal Diversity Database)Taxon page, Country distribution, VietnamQuote, Taxon page, Country distribution, Vietnam
Thailand · Vietnam · Myanmar?
Sources
1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014): EltonTraits 1.0 mammal foraging attributes (MamFuncDat)
EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)MamFuncDat.txt, row Hipposideros galeritus (Diet-Fruit, Diet-Nect, Diet-Inv, Diet-PlantO columns)
3956 Hipposideros galeritus Hipposideridae 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ref_1 ABC A A 1 0 0 Ref_1 ABC 8.18 Ref_117 1
MamFuncDat.txt, row Hipposideros galeritus (Activity-Nocturnal, Activity-Crepuscular, Activity-Diurnal columns)
3956 Hipposideros galeritus Hipposideridae 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ref_1 ABC A A 1 0 0 Ref_1 ABC 8.18 Ref_117 1
View the Source 2. Mammal Diversity Database: Hipposideros galeritus (Mammal Diversity Database)
Mammal Diversity DatabaseTaxon page, IUCN Red List status
IUCN Red List status Least Concern
Taxon page, Species status
Species status Living
View the Source Cantor's roundleaf bat (Wikipedia)
Child Taxon Of: Hipposideridae, Lead, family
is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae
In Group: Bats (Chiroptera), Lead, everyday group
is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae
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