The Fly River roundleaf bat, Hipposideros muscinus, is a leaf-nosed bat found only on the island of New Guinea, in West Papua in Indonesia and in Papua New Guinea. Oldfield Thomas and Giacomo Doria described it in 1886 from a specimen that Luigi D'Albertis collected along the Fly River, first placing it in the genus Phyllorhina. Two measured individuals had a head and body length of 44 to 52 millimetres, a tail of 23 millimetres and a forearm of 45 to 47 millimetres. It has been recorded from sea level to about 750 metres in forested habitat. Taxonomists have grouped it with Semon's, Wollaston's and the northern leaf-nosed bats, and the IUCN lists it as Least Concern.
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Source Fly River roundleaf bat (Wikipedia)
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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Doryrhina muscinus (Mammal Diversity Database)Taxon page, Country distribution, IndonesiaQuote, Taxon page, Country distribution, Indonesia
Indonesia · Papua New Guinea
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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Doryrhina muscinus (Mammal Diversity Database)Taxon page, Country distribution, Papua New GuineaQuote, Taxon page, Country distribution, Papua New Guinea
Indonesia · Papua New Guinea
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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 muscinus (Diet-Fruit, Diet-Nect, Diet-Inv, Diet-PlantO columns)
3939 Hipposideros muscinus Hipposideridae 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ref_1 ABC A A 1 0 0 Ref_1 ABC 14.41 Ref_178 2
MamFuncDat.txt, row Hipposideros muscinus (Activity-Nocturnal, Activity-Crepuscular, Activity-Diurnal columns)
3939 Hipposideros muscinus Hipposideridae 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ref_1 ABC A A 1 0 0 Ref_1 ABC 14.41 Ref_178 2
View the Source 2. Mammal Diversity Database: Doryrhina muscinus (Mammal Diversity Database)
Mammal Diversity DatabaseTaxon page, IUCN Red List status
IUCN Red List status Least Concern
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Species status Living
View the Source Fly River 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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