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 webalai 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 webalai Patterson, Dick, Bartonjo & Demos, 2024.
J. Mammal. 106(1): 193.
Webala's Horseshoe Bat

Kenya, Kilifi County, Malindi Marine Park, KWS Headquarters

South Sudan, Kenya, likely N Uganda and N Tanzania

CITES - Not Listed IUCN - Not Evaluated (new species).

landeri species group.

References:

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.