Cox's roundleaf bat, Hipposideros coxi, also called Cox's leaf-nosed bat, is endemic to Borneo, where all confirmed records are from Sarawak in Malaysia, with Kalimantan in Indonesia a possible further locality. Robert Shelford described it in 1901 from a specimen collected on Mount Penrisen by E. A. W. Cox, who gave it its name. It is a medium-sized member of its genus, distinguished among Bornean hipposiderids by a particularly large nose leaf that covers the whole muzzle and by large ears, with dark brown fur and a forearm of 50.6 to 56 millimetres. It roosts by day in caves in colonies of twenty or fewer and eats insects of at least seven orders. The IUCN lists it as Endangered because its area of occupancy is under 500 square kilometres and it is threatened by cave disturbance, nest harvesting, mining and quarrying.
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System (Realm) ThreatsEnergy Production and Mining 1 ThreatsHuman Intrusions and Disturbance 1 Living or Extinct Conservation Status Activity Pattern Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Cox's roundleaf bat (Wikipedia)
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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Hipposideros coxi (Mammal Diversity Database)Taxon page, Country distribution, MalaysiaQuote, Taxon page, Country distribution, Malaysia
Malaysia · Indonesia?
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1. Cox's roundleaf bat (Wikipedia)
Biology and ecology, diet
It is insectivorous, consuming at least seven different orders of insects
Conservation, cave disturbance
It is threatened by cave disturbance, including humans entering caves to harvest the nests of the edible-nest swiftlet, as well as mining and quarrying.
Conservation, mining and quarrying
It is threatened by cave disturbance, including humans entering caves to harvest the nests of the edible-nest swiftlet, as well as mining and quarrying.
Article text, habitat
During the day, it roosts in caves in small colonies of typically twenty or fewer individuals.
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
View the Source2. Mammal Diversity Database: Hipposideros coxi (Mammal Diversity Database)
Mammal Diversity DatabaseTaxon page, IUCN Red List status
IUCN Red List status Endangered
Taxon page, Species status
Species status Living
View the Source 3. 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 coxi (Activity-Nocturnal, Activity-Crepuscular, Activity-Diurnal columns)Quote, MamFuncDat.txt, row Hipposideros coxi (Activity-Nocturnal, Activity-Crepuscular, Activity-Diurnal columns)
3985 Hipposideros coxi Hipposideridae 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ref_1 ABC A A 1 0 0 Ref_1 ABC 9.25 Ref_117 1
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