Bats of the World

A Taxonomic and Geographic Database

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Nancy B. Simmons and Andrea L. Cirranello
American Museum of Natural History

Your search for Cardioderma resulted in 1 species-level match:

Cardioderma Peters, 1873. Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1873: 488.

Megaderma cor Peters, 1872

References:

Peters, H.W. 1873 [dated 1874]. Hr. W. Peters las über einige zu der Gattung Cynonycteris gehörige Arten der Fiederhunde und über Megaderma cor. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1873: 485-488. Read article.

Cardioderma cor (Peters, 1872).
Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1872: 194.
Heart-nosed Bat

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Megaderma cor

Ethiopia

E Sudan through Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia south through Uganda, Tanzania, and Zanzibar

CITES - Not Listed (2023). IUCN - Least Concern (2017).

See Csada (1996), Happold (2013), Kaňuch et al. (2015), and ACR (2018).  

References:

ACR 2018. African Chiroptera Report 2018. AfricanBats NPC, Praetoria: i-xvi + 1-8028 pp. Read report.

Csada, R. 1996. Cardioderma cor. Mammalian Species 519: 1-4. Read abstract.

Kaňuch, P., T. Aghová, Y. Meheretu, R. Šumbera, and J. Bryja. 1997. New discoveries on the ecology and echolocation of the heart-nosed bat Cardioderma cor with a contribution to the phylogeny of Megadermatidae. African Zoology 50(1): 53-57. Read abstract.

Peters, H.W. 1872 [dated 1873]. Hr. W. Peters las über die Arten der Chiropteren-gattung Megaderma. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1872: 192-196. Read article.