Bats of the World

A Taxonomic and Geographic Database

Compiled and Edited by:
Nancy B. Simmons and Andrea L. Cirranello
American Museum of Natural History

Your search for Rhinolophus axillaris resulted in 1 species-level match:

Rhinolophus Lacepede, 1799. Tabl. Div. Subd. Orders Genres Mammiferes p. 15.

Vespertilio ferrum-equinum Schreber, 1774. Conserved in ICZN Opinion 91 (1926) and Direction 24 (1955)

Rhinolophus axillaris J.A. Allen, 1917.
Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 37(18): 429.
Tufted Horseshoe Bat

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haut-Uélé province, Aba ("Aba, Uele district, Belgian Congo")

Known only from the type locality

CITES - Not Listed IUCN - Least Concern under Rhinolophus landeri (2017).

landeri species group (provisional); see Patterson et al. (2024).

References:

Allen, J.A. 1917. Systematic List. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 37(18): I: 405-478. Read article.

Patterson, B.D., T.C Demos, L. Torrent, A.L. Grunwald, C. Montauban, J.C. Kerbis Peterhans, M.M McDonough, C.W. Dick, M. Bartonjo, M.C Schoeman, L.A. Ruedas, and J. Juste. 2024. Systematics of the Rhinolophus landeri complex, with evidence for 3 additional Afrotropical bat species. Journal of Mammalogy 106(1): 187-201. Read article.