Homfray's horseshoe bat

Homfray's horseshoe bat
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Chiroptera
Family:	Rhinolophidae
Genus:	Rhinolophus
Species:	R. andamanensis
Binomial name
	Rhinolophus andamanensis; (Dobson, 1872)

Homfray's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus andamanensis) is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae. It is endemic to Andaman Islands.

It is a medium-sized bat, with forearms of 46.7–56.6 mm. It was previously considered a subspecies of the intermediate horseshoe bat (R. affinis), from which it was separated based on morphometric, acoustic and molecular phylogeny criteria.[1]

References

Vincenot, Christian; Srinivasulu, Chelmala; Srinivasulu, Aditya; Srinivasulu, Bhargavi; Jones, Gareth (2019). "Integrated approaches to identifying cryptic bat species in areas of high endemism: The case of Rhinolophus andamanensis in the Andaman Islands". 14. PLOS ONE: e0213562. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0213562. ISSN 1932-6203. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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[VincenotSrinivasulu2019-1] Vincenot, Christian; Srinivasulu, Chelmala; Srinivasulu, Aditya; Srinivasulu, Bhargavi; Jones, Gareth (2019). "Integrated approaches to identifying cryptic bat species in areas of high endemism: The case of Rhinolophus andamanensis in the Andaman Islands". 14. PLOS ONE: e0213562. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0213562. ISSN 1932-6203. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)