Species profile—Rhinolophus megaphyllus megaphyllus (southern horseshoe bat)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Rhinolophidae (Horseshoe-bats) → Rhinolophus megaphyllus megaphyllus (southern horseshoe bat)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Rhinolophidae (Horseshoe-bats)
- Scientific name
- Rhinolophus megaphyllus megaphyllus Gray, 1834.
- Common name
- southern horseshoe bat
- Type reference
- Gray, J.E. (1834). Characters of a new species of bat (Rhinolophus, Geoffr.) from New Holland. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1834:52-53.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 22064
- Synonym(s)
- Rhinophyllotis megaphyllus
- Alternate name(s)
- eastern horseshoe-bat
eastern horseshoe bat - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=22064.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
