Coelops Blyth, 1848. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 17: 251.
Coelops frithii Blyth, 1848
Coelops hirsutus (Miller, 1910).
Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 1757: 395.
Philippine Tailless Leaf-nosed Bat
Chilophylla hirsuta
Philippines, Mindoro, Alag River opposite mouth of Egbert River
Cebu, Mindanao, Mindoro, Luzon Isls (Philippines)
CITES - Not Listed IUCN - Not Evaluated (raised from synonymy).
References:
Corbet, G.B., and J.E. Hill 1992. Mammals of the Indomalayan Region. A Systematic Review. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 1-488. Not available online.
Heaney, L.R., D.S. Balete, and E.A. Rickart. 2016. The Mammals of Luzon Island: Biogeography and Natural History of a Phillippine Fauna. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore: 287pp. Read synopsis.
Hill, J.E. 1983. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Indo-Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series 43: 103-208. Read article.
Hill, J.E. 1972. The Gunong Benom Expedition, 1967. 4. New records of Malayan bats, with taxonomic notes and the description of a new Pipistrellus. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series 23: 21-42. Read article.
Miller, G.S., Jr. 1910. Descriptions of two new genera and sixteen new species of mammals from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 1757: 391-404. Read article.
Distinct from robinsoni (Sedlock, Khan, Chiang, and colleagues, pers. comm. 2023); and see Heaney et al. (2016). But see Hill (1972, 1983) and Corbet and Hill (1992) for an alternate view.