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Rhinolophus hildebrandtii (Hildebrandt's horseshoe bat)

Synonyms: Rhinolophus hildebrandti

Wikipedia Abstract

Hildebrandt's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hildebrandtii) is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae found in Africa. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, caves, and subterranean habitats (other than caves).
View Wikipedia Record: Rhinolophus hildebrandtii

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
5
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 1.92
EDGE Score: 1.07
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  29 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Gestation [3]  3 months 3 days
Litter Size [3]  1
Litters / Year [3]  1
Nocturnal [2]  Yes

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park II 1647768 Democratic Republic of the Congo  
Kruger National Park II 4718115 Mpumalanga, South Africa
Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve   Mpumalanga, South Africa  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania No
Eastern Afromontane Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe No
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland No

Predators

Tyto alba (Barn Owl)[1]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Rhinolophus hildebrandti, David L. Pearl, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 486, pp. 1-3 (1994)
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0