Hipposideros lankadiva: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Family
- Hipposideridae
- Genus
- Hipposideros
- Species
- Hipposideros lankadiva
- Scientific Name
- Hipposideros lankadiva
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Indian roundleaf bat
The Indian roundleaf bat (Hipposideros lankadiva), also known as the large Ceylon leaf-nosed bat or Kelaart's leaf‐nosed bat is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is endemic to the Indian subcontinent, with marginal populations also detected in Southeast Asia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and caves. The bat has three subspecies that occur in India, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar. The Indian subspecies, H. l. indus, is smaller than the ones found in Sri Lanka and Myanmar, although there are no other characteristics that differentiate the subspecies.
H. lankadiva is a large leaf-nosed bat and is yellowish-brown in color. A key trait of the bats is the reduced fourth supplementary leaflet on the noseleaf, along with a lack of a fleshy elevation behind the posterior nose-leaf and the absence of white patches on the shoulders, which helps differentiate from similar species such as H. armiger and H. diadema.
The bat has been assessed by the IUCN as least concern, although the species is threatened in parts of its range by roost disturbance and collection for consumption and medicinal use.
...Hipposideros lankadiva in languages:
- Czech
- pavrápenec lakadivský
- English
- Indian roundleaf bat
- English
- Indian Leaf-nosed Bat
- Finnish
- intiankarkko
- Finnish
- eteläintiankarkko
- Sinhala
- මහ පත්-නැහැ වවුලා
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Hipposideros abae
- Hipposideros alongensis
- Hipposideros antricola
- Hipposideros armiger
- Hipposideros ater
- Hipposideros beatus
- Hipposideros bicolor
- Hipposideros boeadii
- Hipposideros breviceps
- Hipposideros caffer
- Hipposideros calcaratus
- Hipposideros cervinus
- Hipposideros cineraceus
- Hipposideros coronatus
- Hipposideros coxi
- Hipposideros crumeniferus
- Hipposideros curtus
- Hipposideros demissus
- Hipposideros diadema
- Hipposideros dinops
- Hipposideros doriae
- Hipposideros durgadasi
- Hipposideros dyacorum
- Hipposideros einnaythu
- Hipposideros fuliginosus
- Hipposideros fulvus
- Hipposideros galeritus
- Hipposideros gentilis
- Hipposideros grandis
- Hipposideros griffini
- Hipposideros halophyllus
- Hipposideros hypophyllus
- Hipposideros inexpectatus
- Hipposideros inornatus
- Hipposideros jonesi
- Hipposideros khaokhouayensis
- Hipposideros kunzi
- Hipposideros lamottei
- Hipposideros lankadiva
- Hipposideros larvatus
- Hipposideros lekaguli
- Hipposideros lylei
- Hipposideros macrobullatus
- Hipposideros madurae
- Hipposideros maggietaylorae
- Hipposideros marisae
- Hipposideros megalotis
- Hipposideros nequam
- Hipposideros nicobarulae
- Hipposideros obscurus
- Hipposideros orbiculus
- Hipposideros papua
- Hipposideros pelingensis
- Hipposideros pendleburyi
- Hipposideros pomona
- Hipposideros poutensis
- Hipposideros pygmaeus
- Hipposideros ridleyi
- Hipposideros rotalis
- Hipposideros ruber
- Hipposideros scutinares
- Hipposideros sorenseni
- Hipposideros speoris
- Hipposideros sumbae
- Hipposideros swinhoei
- Hipposideros tephrus
- Hipposideros turpis




























