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 rex G. M. Allen, 1923.
Am. Mus. Novitates 85: 3.
King Horseshoe Bat
rex G. M. Allen, 1923:
paradoxolophus Bourret, 1951;
schnitzleri Wu & Thong, 2011.
China, Szechwan, Wanhsien
China, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos P.D.R., Thailand
CITES - Not Listed IUCN - Endangered (2020).
References:
Allen, G.M. 1923. New Chinese bats. American Museum Novitates 85: 1-8. Read article.
Chornelia, A., J. Lu, and A.C. Hughes. 2022. How to accurately delineate morphologically conserved taxa and diagnose their phenotypic disparities: Species delimitation in cryptic Rhinolophidae (Chiroptera). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10:854509: 1-18. Read article.
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.
Dorst, J. 1954. Précisions sur un rhinolophidé rare du Tonkin. Mammalia 18(2): 212-215. Read abstract.
Eger, J.L., and M.B. Fenton. 2003. Rhinolophus paradoxolophus. Mammalian Species 731: 1-4. Read article.
Hill, J.E. 1972. A note on Rhinolophus rex, Allen 1923 and Rhinomegalophus paradoxolophus, Bourret, 1951. Mammalia 36: 428-434. Read abstract.
Thonglongya, K. 1973. First record of Rhinolophus paradoxolophus (Bourret, 1951) from Thailand, with the description of a new species of the Rhinolophus philippinensis group (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae). Mammalia 37: 587-597. Read abstract.
Tu, V.T., N.M Furey, T Görföl, A. Hassanin, S. Arai, D. Koyabu, B. Douangboubpha, and G. Csorba. 2023. A taxonomic reassessement of Rhinolophus rex Allen, 1923 and its allies (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae). Vertebrate Zoology 73(2023): 545-556. Read abstract.
Zhang, L., K. Sun, T. Liu, H. Zhao, G. Csorba, L. Jin, V.D. Thong, and J. Feng 2018. Multilocus phylogeny and species delimitation within the philippinensis group (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae). Zoologica Scripta (): . Read abstract.
philippinensis species group. Redescribed by Hill (1972). Includes paradoxolophus; see Corbet and Hill (1992), Zhang et al. (2018), and Tu et al. (2023). See also Dorst (1954), Eger and Fenton (2003), and Thonglongya (1973). Includes schnitzleri; see Tu et al. (2023). We follow Tu et al. (2023) who found no evidence of subspecific divergence within rex sensu lato. Also see Tu et al's (2023) discussion of Chornelia et al.'s (2022) suggestion that this taxon contains cryptic diversity. Tu et al. (2023) note that rex s.l. is likely Near Threatened under IUCN criteria.