Hill's roundleaf bat, Hipposideros edwardshilli, is a leaf-nosed bat endemic to Papua New Guinea. Tim Flannery and Donald Colgan described it in 1993 from a specimen collected near Imonda Station in the Bewani Mountains in 1990, and the species name honours the British mammalogist John Edwards Hill. The forearm is 49.6 to 51 millimetres and the tail only 11 to 15 millimetres, and it differs from every other Hipposideros in having two club-like projections on its nose leaf. It has been recorded only between 200 and 300 metres above sea level and has not been documented since its description. The IUCN lists it as Vulnerable because its area of occupancy may be under 2,000 square kilometres and deforestation continues.
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Source Hill's roundleaf bat (Wikipedia)
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Source Mammal Diversity Database: Doryrhina edwardshilli (Mammal Diversity Database)Taxon page, Country distribution, Papua New GuineaQuote, Taxon page, Country distribution, Papua New Guinea
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 edwardshilli (Diet-Fruit, Diet-Nect, Diet-Inv, Diet-PlantO columns)
4003 Hipposideros edwardshilli Hipposideridae 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ref_2 D1 A A 1 0 0 Ref_1 ABC 13.94 "Ref_2, Ref_3" 0
MamFuncDat.txt, row Hipposideros edwardshilli (Activity-Nocturnal, Activity-Crepuscular, Activity-Diurnal columns)
4003 Hipposideros edwardshilli Hipposideridae 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ref_2 D1 A A 1 0 0 Ref_1 ABC 13.94 "Ref_2, Ref_3" 0
View the Source 2. Mammal Diversity Database: Doryrhina edwardshilli (Mammal Diversity Database)
Mammal Diversity DatabaseTaxon page, IUCN Red List status
IUCN Red List status Vulnerable
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Species status Living
View the Source Hill'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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